Course Curriculum

Introduction to the course and me

1. Evaporites - A compendium

2. Salt usually seals, but sometimes leaks

3. Evaporites across time

Chapter 1.1 - What is salt tectonics?

Chapter 1.2 - Where does thick salt occur?

Chapter 2.1- Salt has some outstanding physical properties

Chapter 2.2 - Rheology of salt- Strength and competency

Chapter 2.3 - Salt textures evolve in flow

Chapter 2.4 - Creep styles in flowing salt

Chapter 2.5a. - Salt tends to flow, flowing salt characteristics

Chapter 2.5b - Salt sometimes breaks, fractures and the importance of salt anomalies

Chapter 3.1. Internal flow and competency contrasts

Chapter 3.2. Inside-out stratigraphy of salt structures

Chapter 4.1 Overview of defining features

Chapter 4.2.1 Salt Pillows - responses to extension and compaction

Chapter 4.2.2 Salt Pillows - responses to extension and compaction

Chapter 4.3 Salt stocks and salt walls

Chapter 4.4 Diapir active stage and extrusive salt

Chapter 4.5 Diapir passive stage and turtle structures

Chapter 4.6 Turtle structures

Chapter 4.6 Diapir passive stage and raft tectonics

Chapter 5.1 Salt allochthons

Chapter 5.2 Namakiers and allochthons dissolve

Chapter 5.3 Salt welds

Chapter 5.4 Salt canopies

Chapter 6.1 Minibasins defined

Chapter 6.2 Complexities of minibasin fill

Chapter 7.1 Brine lakes (DHALs) - Gulf of Mexico - Physical Sedimentation

Chapter 7.2 Brine lakes (DHALs) - Gulf of Mexico - Chemosynthetic life

Chapter 7.3 Brine lakes (DHALs) - Mediterranean

Chapter 7.4 Brine lakes (DHALs) - Red Sea deeps and metals

Chapter 7.5 Siliciclastics in a salt province - Continental and transitional sands

Chapter 7.6 Siliciclastics in a salt province - Deepwater sands

Chapter 7.7 Carbonates in a salt province - Reefs and shoals

Chapter 8.1.1 Suprasalt traps - Simple traps

Chapter 8.1.2 Suprasalt traps - In tiered salt successions

Chapter 8.2 Subsalt traps - Simple and tiered

Chapter 8.3.1 Compressional traps - Squeezed diapirs

Chapter 8.3.2 Compressional traps - Salt cored thrusts and salt wings

Chapter 8.3.3 Compressional traps - Anticlines

Chapter 8.3.4 Compressional traps - Structural complexity

Chapter 8.3.5 Compressional traps - Overpressure and blowouts

Chapter 8.4.1 Intrasalt traps - Carbonate sliver reservoirs

Chapter 8.4.2 Intrasalt traps - Silicilyte reservoirs

Chapter 9.1 Learnings - Final thoughts on the significance of halokinetic salt

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Meet your instructor

Executive Director - Technical Services



John Warren


John has more than 30 years of experience in the petroleum and minerals industries. John specialises in rock and brine characterisation problems in salt, potash, lithium salts, base metal and hydrocarbon exploration programmes. He has been involved in training and technical studies conducted by various companies, including ADNOC, Asia-Pacific Potash, BHP Billiton Petroleum, BHP Billiton Resources, Chevron International, Exxon International, Fortescue Metals, Homestake, Husky Oil, MMG, Nexen, NIOC, Nutrien, Pasminco, PTTEP, Santos, Saudi Aramco, Shell International, Statoil, Vietnam Petroleum Institute, and others. He has also served as a technical expert in evaporites for the AAPG, BBC, IHRDC, and New World Horizons. In addition, John has served on the World Bank Panel of Experts and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Petroleum Geology.