Collaborators at University of Calgary (Steve Hubbard) and University of Utah (Lisa Stright) and I are proposing a new phase of research on the world-class exposures of deep-marine (turbidite) to deltaic strata in the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin of southern Chile. We are building on recent work by Steve Hubbard and his graduate students looking at submarine channel-fill facies relationships and stacking patterns of multiple channel-fill bodies.

The Chile Slope Systems project proposes a multi-disciplinary approach integrating detailed sedimentological characterization and high-resolution stratigraphy to construct 3-D architectural models that can be used to better design reservoir models in analogous subsurface systems. Additionally, continued research on regional correlation and basin evolution provides exceptional system-scale context. Visit this link for much more.