96 Twenty-Seven Years of Advances in Understanding Salt-Sediment Interaction: A Legacy of Katherine A. Giles

This session seeks contributions that highlight the interconnections between coevolving salt bodies and depositional systems in continental, shallow marine and deep marine settings. Field, geobiological, geophysical, and geochemical, as well as theoretical, physical and numerical modeling studies are encouraged.

Monday, 20 October 2025
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
HBGCC, 303AB

Participants

• Chair Mark Fischer
• Chair Benjamin Brunner
• Chair Richard Langford
• Chair Cora Gannaway Dalton

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  The Early La Popa Years (1995–1998) of Dr. Katherine Giles: Springboard to Advanced Concepts in Salt-Sediment Interaction
  Timothy Lawton, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  413499 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:15 AM
  Halokinetic Sequences – Where We’ve Been and Where Next?
  Mark Rowan, Rowan Consulting, Inc., Boulder, CO
  412174 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:35 AM
  The Burial Wedge Concept – New Understandings of the tops of Diapirs.
  Richard Langford, Univ Texas - El Paso, El Paso, TX
  413254 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:50 AM
  An Offshore Oddesy: Thirty Years of Technology Advances in Subsalt Exploration - Mahogany First Oil to Elastic FWI
  A Kurt Tollestrup, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
  411977 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:05 AM
  Prediction of Sediment Distribution and Stratigraphic Traps along Salt Structures
  Charlotte Ribes, TotalEnergies, Houston, Texas and Amir Kalifi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal
  412064 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  Salt moving during its deposition: How does it affect evaporite sedimentation?
  Naïm Celini, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas and Alexandre Pichat, TotalEnergies, Pau
  412156 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  Quantifying the influence of Diapir Relief on Deepwater Geomorphology Using Quaternary Analogues in the Deepwater Gulf Basin
  David Lankford-Bravo, bp, Houston, TX and Sarah Giles, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY
  413879 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  Geological Investigation of the Salt Tectonic Features along the northwestern margin of Moab Valley Salt Wall, Paradox Basin
  Charles Igomu, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Benjamin Brunner, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX and Cora Gannaway Dalton, Utah State University, PRICE, UT and Richard Langford, Univ Texas - El Paso, El Paso, TX and Paola Salas Rivera, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Katherine Giles, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
  412362 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:25 AM
  Megaquartz and Detrital Mica Pin Down the Origin of Lacustrine Dolostone and Gypsum Associated with the Moab, Utah Salt Wall
  Paola Salas Rivera, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Charles Igomu, The University of Texas at El Paso, el paso, Texas and Tricia Tellez, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado and Antonio Arribas, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas and Amanda Labrado, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Richard Langford, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Cora Gannaway Dalton, Utah State University, PRICE, UT and Benjamin Brunner, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
  411931 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  Where the Salt Sheet Ends—Submarine Allochthonous Salt Advance and Secondary Minibasin Horizontal Axis Rotations in The Elda Salt Sheet, Eastern Prebetics (Southern Iberia)
  David Canova, Facultat de Cièncias de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona and Gabriel Cofrade, Facultat de Cièncias de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona and Eduard Roca, Facultat de Cièncias de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona and Marco DeMatheis, Facultat de Cièncias de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona and Oriol Ferrer, Facultat de Cièncias de la Terra, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona
  411963 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:55 AM
  Breakout and Advance at Beltana: Allochthonous Salt Emplacement in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia
  C. Evelyn Gannaway Dalton, Utah State University, Price, UT and Katherine Giles, University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, TX and Benjamin Brunner, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and J. Carl Fiduk, Fiduk Consulting, LLC, Houston, TX and Sarah Giles, Columbia University, Houston, TX and Mark Rowan, Rowan Consulting, Inc., Boulder, CO and David Lankford-Bravo, BP Exploration, House, TX and Richard Langford, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
  411988 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:10 AM
  Perplexed about the Subsalt Rubble Zone? Well that makes Two of Us! Recent Investigations into the Timing of Rubble Formation and Possible Correlations.
  Joseph Fiduk, Fiduk Consulting, Houston, TX and Mark Rowan, Rowan Consulting, Inc., Boulder, CO and Iain Prince, Shell Energy, Houston, Texas and Katherine Giles, University of Texas El Paso, DEERS/ITS, El Paso, TX
  414512 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:25 AM
  Am I disturbed?! Expanding the paradigm of subsalt “deformation” in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia
  Mark Fischer, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL and Joshua Schwartz, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL and C Gannaway Dalton, Utah State University, PRICE, UT and Nicholas Williams, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL and David Canova, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL and Lillian Lueck, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
  413737 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:40 AM
  Out of the Salt Pan, into the Diapir – Survival in the Salty Deep Biosphere
  Alexa Couroux, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Valeria Martinez, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX and Cora Gannaway Dalton, Utah State University, Price, UT and Benjamin Brunner, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
  412018 (Technical Sessions)