RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am involved in research that test the following hypothesis:

• Orogenic systems are the product of the mechanical separation of crust and sediments from the underlying lithosphere. Seismic reflection profiles define decoupling levels.
• The formation of allochthonous salt sheets in a continental slope environment is due to a combination of salt diapirism and sediment loading on slopes.
• Inversion of half-grabens in a major orogenic mechanism. My students and I work on projects in Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico (both offshore and on shore), Northern Canada, Indonesia, Italy, Hungary, and Morocco.

All the research projects done in my group are cooperative efforts with industrial companies. They all involve the integration of geologic surface and subsurface data with reflection seismic profiles.

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