Theses, dissertations, presentations and publications by researchers and students of the Caribbean

Basins, Tectonics and Hydrocarbons Project (2005-2014)

GRAND TOTALS: 29 PhD, MSc, and BSc theses, 150 presentations, & 63 publications

2014 PhD dissertations from students supported by the CBTH project (1)
Bernal-Olaya, R. 2014, Evolution of a forearc basin in a flat-slab subduction setting, Lower Magdalena
basin, Colombia: PhD dissertation, University of Houston.

2014 MS theses from students supported by the CBTH project (2)

Ahmad, S., 2014, Paleogeographic reconstruction of the northern Caribbean region from Late Cretaceous to
the Recent: MSc thesis, University of Stavanger, 128 p.
Loureiro, P., 2014, Cenozoic basin evolutionof the Virgin Islands basin and Anegada Passage, northeastern
Caribbean, Master's thesis, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 98 p.

2014 BSc theses from students supported by the CBTH project (5)
Ask, K., 2014, 3D model reconstruction of sandbox experiment of thrusting with local sedimentation: BSc
thesis, University of Stavanger, 42 p.
Bjåland, S., 2014, 3D model reconstruction of sandbox experiment of thrusting with local sedimentation: BSc
thesis, University of Stavanger, 48 p.
Gjestvang, J., 2014, 3D model reconstruction of sandbox experiment of thrusting with local sedimentation:
BSc thesis, University of Stavanger, 51 p.
Hadland, S., 2014, 3D model reconstruction of sandbox experiment of thrusting with local sedimentation:
BSc thesis, University of Stavanger, 47 p.
Helland, E., 2014, 3D model reconstruction of sandbox experiment of thrusting with local sedimentation: BSc
thesis, University of Stavanger, 58 p.

2014 Presentations (16)

Alvarez, T., L. Wood, P. Mann, 2014, Along-Strike Sediment Transport is an Underappreciated Control on
the Pleistocene Sedimentary Record Offshore East Coast Trinidad, AAPG Annual Conference and
Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Alvarez, T., P. Mann, L. Wood, 2014, Tectonics, Basin Evolution and Sediment Distribution within the
Collision to Subduction Transition of the Southeastern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone in Offshore
Trinidad, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Batbayar, K., P. Mann, J.C. Hippoplyte, 2014, Tectonic Interpretation of Changing Paleostress in the Circum-
Caribbean Region, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Bingham, L., and D. Karssenberg, 2014, Error propagation in a fuzzy logic spatial multi-criteria evaluation:
Proceedings of the AGILE'2014 International Conference on Geographic Information Science.
Castillo, Karilys, P. Mann, P. Bartok, 2014, Paleogeography of the Cenozoic passive margin of northeastern
South America in eastern Venezuela and Trinidad from seismic data and well information, Gulf Coast
Section SEPM Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, Houston, Texas.
Hasan, M. and P. Mann, 2014, Stages of Jurassic Rifting, Magmatism, and Salt Deposition in the Eastern
Gulf of Mexico Inferred from a Grid of Deep-Penetration Seismic Reflection Data Tied to Wells,
AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Kocel, E., R. Stewart, P. Mann, L. Chang, 2014, Near-surface geophysical investigation of the 2010 Haiti
earthquake epicentral area, Haiti, SEG annual meeting, Denver, Colorado
Leslie, S., P. Mann, L.C. Carvajal, 2014, Giant mass transport deposits of the Caribbean margin and their
tsunamigenic potential, offshore northern Colombia, American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San
Francisco, California
Loureiro, P., and P. Mann, 2014, A newly recognized, 460-km-long and arcuate, right-lateral strike-slip fault
traversing Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San
Francisco, California
Mann, P. and I. Ambrosius, 2014, Areas of Active Tectonic Uplift Are Sensitive to Small Changes in Fold
Orientations within a Broad Zone of Left-lateral Transpression and Shearing, Dominican Republic
and Haiti (Hispaniola), American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco, California
Ott, B., P. Mann, M. Saunders, 2014, Island Arcs, Misplaced Continents, and a Large Igneous Province:
Challenges for Petroleum Prospecting in the Western Caribbean, AAPG Annual Conference and
Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Ott, B., P. Mann, M. Saunders, 2014, Role of the offshore Pedro Banks left-lateral strike-slip fault zone in the
plate tectonic evolution of the northern Caribbean, Gulf Coast Section SEPM Bob F. Perkins
Research Conference, Houston, Texas.
Ott, B. and P. Mann, 2014, Structural and Gravity Transects of the Colon Mountains-Nicaraguan Rise
Orogenic Belt of Honduras and Offshore Nicaragua/Jamaica, AAPG Annual Conference and
Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Reuber, K., P. Mann, M. Saunders, 2014, Are along-strike alternations of symmetrical and Non-symmetrical
South Atlantic conjugate margins controlled by volcanic vs. non-volcanic rifting process?, AAPG
Annual Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Sanchez, J. and P. Mann, 2014, Regional Transect Across the Western Caribbean: Structural Styles and Plate
Reconstructions of Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Tectonic Events, AAPG Annual Conference and
Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Wang, J., P. Mann, A. von Lignau, 2014, Definition and paleoseismology of the active, left-lateral Enriquillo-
Plantain Garden fault zone based on high-resolution Chirp profiles: Lakes Azuey and Mirogoane,
Haiti, American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Francisco, California

2014 Publications (2)

Torrado, L., P. Mann, J. Bhattacharya, 2014, Application of seismic attributes and spectral decomposition for
reservoir characterization of a complex fluvial system: Case study of the Carbonera Formation,
Llanos foreland basin, Colombia, Geophysics, Vol. 79, No. 5, p. 1-10.
Xiangyang, X. and P. Mann, 2014, U–Pb detrital zircon age patterns of Cenozoic clastic sedimentary rocks in
Trinidad and its implications, Sedimentary Geology, Vol. 307, p. 7-16.

2013 MS theses from students supported by the CBTH project (4)

Campiño Restrepo, L., 2013, 2D Seismic Interpretation of the Tumaco on-and offshore basin, SW Colombia.
Implications for tectono-stratigraphic evolution and hydrocarbon exploration: MSc thesis, University
of Stavanger, 119 p.
Dale, A., 2013, Crustal type, tectonic origin, and petroleum potential of the Bahamas carbonate
platform: MSc thesis, University of Houston, 84 p.
Johansen, E., 2013, Flexural Modeling through time in northern South America: MSc thesis: University of
Stavanger, 92 p.
Pachon, L., 2013, Stratigraphic and tectonic history of the Putumayo foreland basin, Colombia: MSc
thesis, University of Houston, 153 p.

2013 Presentations (31)

Alvarez, T., P. Mann, L. Wood, C. Vargas, J. Latchman, 2013, Transition from Subduction to Strike-Slip in
the Southeast Caribbean: Effects on Lithospheric Structures and Overlying Basin Evolution, AGU
Annual Conference, San Francisco, California
Batbayar, K., P. Mann, J.C. Hippolyte, 2013, Shifts in the Caribbean plate direction inferred from paleostress
measurements from striated fault planes in the circum-Caribbean region, GSA South-Central Annual
Meeting, Austin, Texas.
Batbayar, K., P. Mann, J.C. Hippolyte, 2013, Changes in Late Cretaceous-Quaternary Caribbean plate
motion directions inferred from paleostress measurements from striated fault planes, AGU Annual
Conference, San Francisco, California.
Bernal-Olaya, R.D., P. Mann, C. Vargas, I. Koulakov, 2013, Tomographically-imaged subducted slabs and
magmatic history of Caribbean and Pacific subduction beneath Colombia, AGU Annual Convention,
San Francisco, California.
Bingham, L. and D. Karssenberg, 2013, Error Propagation of a Fuzzy Logic Multi-criteria Evaluation for
Petroleum Exploration, EUROGEO Conference, Bruges, Belgium.
Bingham, L., R. Zurita-Milla, D. Karssenberg, and A. Escalona, 2013, GIS-Based Analysis for Petroleum
Exploration, ESRI Petroleum User Group, London, England, ESRI.
Blanco, J.M., C. E. Padrón, H. Contreras, 2013, Fracture Identification and Analysis Using Seismic Attributes
in Carbonate Reservoirs: Cimarrona Formation, Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia, AAPG
Annual Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Blanco, J.M., P. Mann, P. Bartok, 2013, Subsurface Structure, Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbons of the Falcon
Basin: An Inverted, Hydrocarbon-Bearing Rift Basin in Western Venezuela, AAPG ICE Conference,
Cartagena, Colombia.
Campiño Restrepo, L. and A. Escalona, 2013, 2D Seismic Interpretation of the Tumaco Basin, SW Colombia.
Implications for Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution and Hydrocarbon Exploration, AAPG Annual
Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Carvajal Arenas, L.C., P. Mann, M. Saunders, 2013, Petroleum prospectivity of the southwestern Nicaraguan
Rise (Colombian Caribbean) based on regional integration of seismic and well data, AAPG Annual
Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Carvajal Arenas, L.C., P. Mann, K.K. Bissada, M. Saunders, 2013, Cenozoic Source Rocks of the
Southwestern Nicaraguan Rise, Caribbean Sea: Distribution, Burial History, and Maturation, AAPG
ICE Conference, Cartagena, Colombia.
Castillo, K. and P. Mann, 2013, Early History of the Orinoco Delta on the Northeastern Margin of South
America, AAPG ICE Conference, Cartagena, Colombia.
Dale, A., K. Reuber, D. Bird, P. Mann, 2013, Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Plume Focus and Evidence
for its Relation to the Basement of the Bahamas, GSA South-Central Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
Dale, A., P. Mann, D. Bird, 2013, Crustal Structure of the Central Atlantic Rifted-Passive Margin from South
Carolina to the Southeastern Bahamas: A First Step to Understand its Petroleum Potential, AAPG
Annual Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hasan, M. and P. Mann, 2013, Stages of Mesozoic rifting, magmatism, and salt deposition in the Eastern Gulf
of Mexico inferred from a grid of deep-penetration seismic reflection data, San Francisco, California.
Hasan, M., 2013, New observations on the crustal structure of the US Gulf of Mexico basin based on deep-
penetration seismic reflection data, gravity and plate reconstructions, GSA South-Central Annual
Meeting, Austin, TX.
Johansen, E. A. Escalona, N. Cardozo, L. Bingham, 2013, 3D Flexural Modeling through time in the northern
South America, EAGE Conference, London, England.
Moreno, C. and A. Escalona, 2013, Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Llanos Basin, Colombia and Its
Significance for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity, AAPG ICE Conference, Cartagena, Colombia.
Nguyen, L., P. Mann, D. Bird, 2013, Gravity and Petroleum Modeling in Gulf of Mexico, GSA South-
Central Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
Nguyen, L., P. Mann, D. Bird, 2013, Location of deeply buried, offshore Mesozoic transform fault along the
western margin of the Gulf of Mexico inferred from gravity and magnetic data, AGU Annual
Conference, San Francisco, California.
Mann, P. and N. Dowla, 2013, Worldwide Trends in the Discoveries of Giant Fields from 2006-12 with
Predictions on the Locations and Numbers of Future Giants, AAPG Annual Conference and
Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Osmond, J., P. Mann, S. Pierce, 2013, Petroleum Potential of Onland Basins in Hispaniola (Dominican
Republic and Haiti) Based on Integration of Vintage Well and Seismic Reflection Data with
Geochemical Data, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ott, B., P. Mann, M. Saunders, 2013, Crustal Provinces of the Nicaraguan Rise as a Control on Source Rock
Distribution and Maturity, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ott, B., P. Mann, M. Saunders, 2013, Role of the offshore Pedro Banks left-lateral strike-slip fault zone in the
plate tectonic evolution of the northern Caribbean, AGU Annual Conference, San Francisco,
California.
Pachon, L.F., P. Mann, N. Cardozo, 2013, Structural Evolution and Petroleum Potential of Putumayo
Foreland Basin, Colombia, from Subsurface Mapping and 3D Flexural Modeling, AAPG Annual
Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Reuber, K., P. Mann, M. Saunders, 2013, Buried Cretaceous Delta of the Barreirinhas Basin, Offshore Brazil:
Potential Source of Structural and Stratigraphic Traps in Deepwater Sandstone?, AAPG Annual
Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sanchez, J., P. Mann, and P. Emmet, 2013, Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic deformation of the North American-
Caribbean plate boundary in northern Central America and its effects on the origin and migration of
hydrocarbons, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sanchez, J. and P. Mann, 2013, Effects of Caribbean oceanic plateau shallow subduction on topographic
uplift and exhumation of the northwestern Maracaibo block, Colombia, AGU Annual Conference,
San Francisco, California.
Tomlinson, D., Z. Wolfe, M. Murphy, P. Mann, 2013, Comparison of Thick versus Thin-Skinned Styles of
Laramide Thrusting in the Southern Rockies and Sierra Madre Oriental Fold-Thrust Belts, GSA
South-Central Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
Torrado, L., P. Mann, J. Bhattacharya, 2013, Tectonic effects on changing fluvial style in the Late Eocene
‐Oligocene northern Llanos foreland basin of Colombia, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Torrado, L., P. Mann, J. Bhattacharya, 2013, Application of Seismic Attributes and Fluvial Geomorphology
of the Late Eocene-Oligocene of the Carbonera Formation in the Llanos Foreland Basin of Colombia,
AAPG ICE Conference, Cartagena, Colombia.

2013 Publications (5)

Escalona, A. and W. Yang, 2013, Impact of low-angle subduction in petroleum systems along the Leeward
Antilles island arc emergent gas trend, northern South America: First Break., v. 31, p. 55-65.
Escalona, A. and W. Yang, 2013, Subsidence controls on foreland basin development of northwestern
offshore Cuba, southeastern Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Bulletin, January 2013, v. 97, p. 1-25,
doi:10.1306/06111212002
Koehler, R., Mann, P., Prentice, C., Brown, L., Benford, B., and Grandison-Wiggins, M., 2013, Enriquillo-
Plantain Garden fault zone in Jamaica: Paleoseismology and seismic hazard: Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of America, v. 103, no. 2A, p. 971-983, April, 2013, doi: 10.1785/0120120215
Prentice, C., Mann, P. and Pena, L., 2013, Comment on “Historical perspective on seismic hazard to
Hispaniola and the northeast Caribbean region”: Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, v.
118, 1-4, doi10.1002/jgrb.50170.2013
Vargas, C., and Mann, P., 2013, Tearing and Breaking Off of Subducted Slabs as the Result of Collision of
the Panama Arc-Indenter with Northwestern South America: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of
America, Vol. 103, No. 3., p. 2025-2046, June, 2013, doi: 10.1785/0120120328

2012 MS theses from students supported by the CBTH project (4)

Figueira, B., 2012, An examination of the spatial and temporal evolution of a complex transition zone in the
Gulf of Paria, Trinidad-Venezuela (Eastern Venezuela Basin/ EVB): MSc thesis, University of
Stavanger, 80 p.
Moreno, C., 2012, Evolution of the southern Llanos basin, Colombia: MSc thesis, University of Stavanger,
Stavanger, 88 p.
Torrado, L., 2012, Non-Marine Sequence Stratigraphy and Changing Fluvial Style in the Northern Llanos
Foreland Basin of Colombia: MSc thesis, University of Houston, Houston.
Wolfe, Z., 2012, Stratigraphic Controls on the Structural Evolution of the Sierra Madre Oriental Fold-thrust
Belt, Eastern Mexico: MSc thesis, University of Houston, Houston, 74 p.

2012 Presentations (21)

Alvarez, T., P. Mann, C. Vargas, L. Wood, J. Latchman, 2012, Systematic Variations in the Age and
Thickness of Subducting Crust as a Control on Regional Structure; the Barbados Accretionary Prism,
the Island of Trinidad and the Associated Offshore Areas, and Implications for Hydrocarbon
Prospectivity, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Long Beach, California.
Bernal-Olaya, R.D. and P. Mann, 2012, Controls on Migration of Forearc Depocenters, Lower Magdalena
basin, Colombia, GSA Penrose Meeting, Lucca, Italy.
Bernal-Olaya, R.D., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2012, Tectonic Controls on the Spatial and Temporal
Migration of Depocenters in Forearc Basins: A Comparison of Modern and Ancient Caribbean
Examples, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Long Beach, California.
Bernal-Olaya, R.D., 2012, Defining the geometry of the subducting Caribbean slab beneath northwestern
Colombia and its controls on the overriding Lower Magdalena forearc basins, XI Simposio
Bolivariano, “Exploración petrolera en las cuencas subandinas,” Cartagena, Colombia.
Bingham, L., A. Escalona, R. Zurita-Milla, 2012, GIS-based Fuzzy Logic Analysis for Petroleum Exploration
and Case Study of Northern South America, EAGE Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Campos, H., 2012, Tectonic and subsidence history of the Llanos foreland basin of Colombia, XI Simposio
Bolivariano, “Exploración petrolera en las cuencas subandinas,” Cartagena, Colombia.
Chursina, I., A. Escalona, 2012, Frontier Exploration in Accretionary Prisms: Sinu belt Colombia, GSA
Penrose Meeting, Lucca, Italy.
Dowla, N. and P. Mann, 2012, Future Discovery Trends of Oil and Gas Fields, AAPG-SEG Student Expo,
Houston, Texas.
Dowla, N. and P. Mann, 2012, Oil and Gas Field Discovery Trends, University of Houston Undergraduate
Research Day, Houston, Texas.
Dowla, N., R. Stewart, P. Mann, L. Chang, 2012, Shallow seismic profiling of onland Leogane fan-delta,
Haiti, for imaging fan stratigraphy and buried faults associated with the January 12, 2010, earthquake,
AGU Annual Conference, San Francisco, California
Figueira, B. and A. Escalona, 2012, Examination of the complex transition zone in the southern Gulf of
Paria, Trinidad-Venezuela, EAGE Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Figueira, B. and A. Escalona, 2012 Examination of the spatial and temporal evolution of multiple terranes in
the southern Gulf of Paria, GSTT Conference, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Mann, P., 2012, Are "uncharacteristic" earthquakes spatially linked to strike-slip restraining bends?, Fall
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
Mann, P., W. Yang, A. Escalona, 2012, Regional Effects of the Cuban Arc-Continent Collision on Structure,
Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbons in the Deepwater, Southeastern Gulf of Mexico, AAPG Annual
Conference and Exhibition, Long Beach, California.
Moreno, C. and A. Escalona, 2012, Inversion History of the Southern Area of the Llanos basin, Colombia,
EAGE Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Ott, B. and P. Mann, 2012, Early origins of the Caribbean plate from seismic and gravity data across the
Nicaraguan Rise, AAPG-SEG Student Expo, Houston, Texas.
Ott, B. and P. Mann, 2012, Early origins of the Caribbean plate from deep seismic profiles across the
Nicaraguan Rise, AGU Annual Conference, San Francisco, California.
Pachon, L.F. and P. Mann, 2012, Hydrocarbon Structural Traps above Inverted, Mesozoic Normal Faults in
the Putumayo Foreland Basin, Southern Colombia, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Long
Beach, California.
Sanchez, C.J., and P. Mann, 2012, Thick-Skinned Style and Timing of Convergent Tectonics in Northwestern
South America and Implications for Petroleum Exploration, AAPG Annual Conference and
Exhibition, Long Beach, California.
Sanchez, C.J. and P. Mann, 2012, Sedimentary and structural response of right-lateral transpression
associated with oblique convergence along Caribbean-South American plate margin, Northern
Colombia, GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Torrado, L., P. Mann, J. Bhattacharya, 2012, Non-marine Sequence Stratigraphy and Changing Fluvial Style
in the Northern Llanos Foreland Basin of Colombia, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Long
Beach, California.

2012 Publications (4)

Bingham, L., R. Zurita-Milla, and A. Escalona, 2012, Geographic information system–based fuzzy-logic
analysis for petroleum exploration with a case study of northern South America: AAPG Bulletin, v.
96 no. 11.Escalona, A. and W. Yang, in press, Subsidence controls on foreland basin development of
northwest offshore Cuba, southeastern Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Bulletin, vol. 96 no. 11.
Mann, P., 2012, Comparison of structural styles and giant hydrocarbon occurrences within four active strike-
slip regions: California, Southern Caribbean, Sumatra, and East China, in D. Gao, ed., Tectonics and
sedimentation: Implications for petroleum systems: AAPG Memoir 100, p. 43-93.
Sánchez, J., B. K. Horton, E. Tesón, A. Mora, R. A. Ketcham, and D. F. Stockli, 2012, Kinematic evolution
of Andean fold-thrust structures along the boundary between the Eastern Cordillera and Middle
Magdalena Valley basin, Colombia, Tectonics, 31.
Vargas, C., P. Mann, and C. Gomez, 2012, Morphologic expression of accretionary processes and recent
submarine landslides along the southwestern Pacific margin of Colombia: in Submarine Mass
Movements and their Consequences, edited by Y. Yamada et al., Advances in Natural and
Technological Hazards Research, v. 31, pt. 4.

2011 MS theses from students supported by the CBTH project (3)

Bingham, L., 2011, GIS-based analysis for petroleum exploration using fuzzy logic multi-criteria evaluation
and sensitivity analysis: unpublished MS thesis, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 176
p.
Campos, H., 2011, Tectonostratigraphic and subsidence history of the northern Llanos foreland basin of
Colombia: unpublished MS thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 105 p.
Rodriguez, A., 2011, Regional structure, stratigraphy, and hydrocarbon potential of the Mexican sector of the
Gulf of Mexico: unpublished MS thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 177 p.

2011 presentations (23)

Alvarez, T., C. Vargas, P. Mann, and J. Latchman, 2011, Subduction-to-stike-slip-transition in the
southeastern Caribbean imaged using deeply-penetrating seismic reflection lines and tomography,
GSA Penrose Colombia, Manizales, Colombia.
Alvarez, T., C. Vargas, P. Mann, A. Escalona, and J. Latchman, 2011, Subduction-to-Strike-Slip-Transition in
the Southeastern Caribbean Imaged Using Deeply-Penetrating Seismic Reflection Lines and
Tomography, AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, p. 19.
Bernal, R., P. Mann, and C. Vargas, 2011, Lower Magdalena basin, Colombia: A forearc basin formed above
a zone of active, shallow subduction, GSA Penrose Colombia, Manizales, Colombia.
Bernal-Olaya, R. D., P. Mann, and C. Vargas, 2011, Lower Magdalena Basin, Colombia: A Forearc Basin
Formed above a Zone of Active, Shallow Subduction, AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition
Houston, Texas.
Bingham, L., and A. Escalona, 2011, Using Regional GIS-Based Suitability Maps in Petroleum Exploration:
Case Study of Northern South America, Norwegian Geological Society Winter Conference,
Stavanger, Norway.
Campos, H., P. Mann, and N. Cardozo, 2011, Flexurally-driven subsidence history of the Llanos foreland
basin of Colombia, GSA Penrose Colombia, Manizales, Colombia.
Campos, H., P. Mann, A. Escalona, and N. Cardozo, 2011, Flexurally-driven Subsidence History of the
Llanos Foreland Basin of Colombia, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Chursina, I., and A. Escalona, 2011, Consideration of accretionary prisms for petroleum exploration,
Norwegian winter conference, Stavanger, Norway.
Costley, R., P. Mann, C. Vargas, L. Bingham, and A. Escalona, 2011, GIS database for research on active
tectonics and basinal studies in Colombia and its offshore Caribbean and Pacific margin, GSA Penrose
Colombia, Manizales, Colombia.
Emmet, P. A., P. Mann, and R. Roberson, 2011, Nicaraguan Rise offshore Honduras: Upper Cretaceous
source rock may contribute to a proven Eocene hydrocarbon system at Main Cape-1 in the Mosquitia
Basin: AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Escalona, A., and W. Yang, 2011, Evaluating petroleum systems along the Leeward Antilles island arc,
southern Caribbean, EAGE Annual Conference, Vienna, Austria.

Escalona, A., and L. Bingham, 2011, Peak oil: An elusive target and the impact of technology and frontier
exploration, Norwegian Geological Society Winter Conference, Stavanger, Norway.
Figueira, B., A. Escalona, N. Cordozo, and M. Sahoo, 2011, Fractures at Galera Point, northeast Trinidad:
Origins, significance and impact on reservoir potential, Norwegian Winter Conference, Stavanger,
Norway.
Mann, P., and C. A. Vargas Jimenez, 2011, Role of Panama arc-indentor for late Cenozoic deformation in
Colombia and implications for regional distribution of hydrocarbons, AAPG Annual Conference and
Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Mann, P., 2011, Major hydrocarbon plays in the Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and
northern South America, SEG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.
Mann, P., Emmet, P., Roberson , R., 2011, Crustal thinning of the continental borderland bounding the
oceanic Cayman trough, Fall AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
Moreno, M. C., A. Escalona, and N. Cordozo, 2011, Main structural features of the Southern Llanos basin,
Colombia, and their implications for hydrocarbon exploration. Norwegian Geological Society Winter
Conference, Stavanger, Norway.
Prieto, M., H. Van Avendonk, P. Mann, S. Holdbrook, D. Lizarralde, and P. Denyer, 2011, Crustal
Thickening, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Petroleum Potential of the Western Colombia Basin
Adjacent to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Houston, Texas.
Prieto, M., H. J. A. Van Avendonk, P. Mann, S. Holbrook, D. Lizarralde, and P. Denyer, 2011, Crustal
structure and sequence stratigraphy of the western Colombian basin adjacent to Costa Rica and
Nicaragua, GSA Penrose Colombia, Manizales, Colombia.
Rodriguez, A. B., and P. Mann, 2011, Origin of the Mexican Ridges passive margin foldbelt based on seismic
and well integration from the shelf-slope-deep basin and structural restoration, AAPG Annual
Conference and Exhibition Houston, Texas.
Vargas, C. A., P. Mann, and C. Gomez, 2011, The Monterey isotope excursion event in the Colombia basin:
Seismic evidence and hydrocarbon implications, AAPG Annual Conference and Exhibition, Houston,
Texas, p. 30.
Yang, W., and A. Escalona, 2011, Exploration plays in Guyana basin, Northeastern South America,
Norwegian Geological Society Winter Conference, Stavanger, Norway.
Yang, W., and A. Escalona, 2011, Pseudo-3D Modeling on Source Rock Evaluation in the Guyana Basin,
Northern South America, EAGE Annual Conference, Vienna, Austria.

2011 publications (17)

Aitken, T., P. Mann, A. Escalona, and G. L. Christeson, 2011, Evolution of the Grenada and Tobago basins
and implications for arc migration: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p. 235-258.
Bingham, L., and A. Escalona, 2011, Creating a unified geologic database: The need for a global standard:
First Break, v. 29, p. 41-48.
Escalona, A., and P. Mann, 2011, Tectonics, basin subsidence mechanisms, and paleogeography of the
Caribbean-South American plate boundary zone: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p. 8-39.
Escalona, A., P. Mann, and M. Jaimes, 2011, Miocene to recent Cariaco basin, offshore Venezuela: Structure,
tectonosequences, and basin-forming mechanisms: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p. 177-199.
Escalona, A., and L. Bingham, 2011, The value chain and hydrocarbon reserves, in M. Lien, ed., Introduction
to Petroleum Geology: Høvik, Norway, Vett and Viten ELS, p. 254-264.
Escalona, A., W. Fjeldskaar, and I. Grunnaleite, 2011, Basin modeling across the emergent Lesser Antilles
island arc, southeastern Caribbean: Impact on petroleum systems: First Break, v. 29, p. 23-34.
Garciacaro, E., A. Escalona, P. Mann, L. Wood, L. Moscardelli, and S. Sullivan, 2011, Structural controls on
Quaternary deepwater sedimentation, mud diapirism, and hydrocarbon distribution within the actively
evolving Columbus foreland basin, eastern offshore Trinidad: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28,
p. 149-176.
Garciacaro, E., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2011, Regional structure and tectonic history of the obliquely
colliding Columbus foreland basin, offshore Trinidad and Venezuela: Marine and Petroleum
Geology, v. 28, p. 126-148.
Hippolyte, J.-C., and P. Mann, 2011, Neogene–Quaternary tectonic evolution of the Leeward Antilles islands
(Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao) from fault kinematic analysis: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p.
259-277.
Hornbach, M. J., P. Mann, C. Frohlich, K. Ellins, and L. Brown, Assessing geohazards near Kingston,
Jamaica: Initial results from chirp profiling, Leading Edge, v. 30, p. 410-413.
Kroehler, M., Mann, P., Escalona, A., and Christeson, G., 2011, Late Cretaceous-Miocene diachronous onset
of backarc thrusting along the South Caribbean deformed belt and its importance for understanding
processes of arc collision and crustal growth: Tectonics, v. 30.
Mann, P., 2011, Volume dedication Amos Salvador (1923-2007): Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p. 1-
3.
Mann, P., and A. Escalona, 2011, Introduction to the special issue of Marine and Petroleum Geology:
Tectonics, basinal framework, and petroleum systems of eastern Venezuela, the Leeward Antilles,
Trinidad and Tobago, and offshore areas: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28, p. 4-7.
Soto, D., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2011, Miocene-to-recent structure and basinal architecture along the
Central Range strike-slip fault zone, eastern offshore Trinidad: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 28,
p. 212-234.
Vargas C. and P. Mann, and C. Borrero, 2011, Field guides for excursions to the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano
and to the Romeral Fault System (Colombia) in the frame of the Neotectonics of arc-continent
collision concepts, Earth Sciences Research Journal, v. 14, no. 1.
Yang, W., and A. Escalona, 2011, Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Guyana Basin: AAPG Bulletin, v. 95,
p. 1339-1369.
Yang, W., and Escalona, A., 2011, Basin modeling and source rock evaluation in the Guyana basin, First
Break, v. 29, p. 59-69.

2010 presentations (13)

Escalona, A., W. Fjeldskaar, and P. Mann, 2010, Basin modeling along emergent island arcs and oblique
convergent margins - Impact on petroleum systems - Southeastern Caribbean case, EAGE Annual
Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
Bingham, L., A. Escalona, and P. Mann, 2010, Creating a Unified Geologic Database: Methods and
Techniques, EAGE Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
Mann, P., A. Escalona, and W. Yang, 2010, Tectonic setting and hydrocarbon trendology of a reported 7-8
TCF giant gas Discovery, eastern Gulf of Venezuela, AAPG Annual Conference, New Orleans,
Louisiana, AAPG.
Alvarez, T., and P. Mann, 2010, Tectonic habitat of hydrocarbons in the deep- and ultra-deepwater frontier
areas of Trinidad and Tobago, AAPG Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, AAPG.
Punnette, S., L. Wood, and P. Mann, 2010, Tectonic and eustatic controls on the origin of shelf sands and
associated facies, offshore NCMA area of Trinidad and Tobago, AAPG Annual Conference, New
Orleans, Louisiana, AAPG.
Rodriguez, A., P. Mann, and W. Galloway, 2010, Effects of Laramide foreland basin tectonics on structure,
subsidence, and hydrocarbons of the Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico, AAPG Annual Conference,
New Orleans, Louisiana, AAPG.
Bernal, R., P. Mann, A. Escalona, R. Hernandez, and V. Ramirez, 2010, Characterizing the structural style
and age of the Romeral fault zone in the subsurface of the Lower Magdalena basin, Colombia, AAPG
Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, AAPG.
Bingham, L., A. Escalona, and P. Mann, 2010, Creaming Curves and Discovery Trends of 5 Basins from the
Gulf of Mexico to Northern South America, AAPG Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana,
AAPG.
Campos, H., and P. Mann, 2010, Tectonic influence of the Cordillera Oriental thrust salient on the shortening
and subsidence history of the Llanos foreland basin of Colombia, AAPG Annual Conference, New
Orleans, Louisiana, AAPG.
Emmet, P., and P. Mann, 2010, Early Cenozoic rift inversion: key to understanding the structural framework
and petroleum potential of the Nicaraguan Rise, AAPG Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana,
AAPG.
Whitehill, C., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2010, Tectono-stratigraphic framework of the western Maracaibo
block, Colombia-Venezuela: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration, AAPG Annual Conference,
New Orleans, Louisiana, AAPG.
Yang, W., A. Escalona, and P. Mann, 2010, Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the continental shelf of
Guyana and Suriname, AAPG Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, AAPG.
Mann, P., Y. Wenxiu, and A. Escalona, 2010, Far-field deformation effects of the oblique Caribbean plate
collision on the passive marging of the northeastern South America in the Guyana Basin, AGU
Meeting of the Americas, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil.

2010 publications (7)

Mondziel, S. A., N. Grindlay, P. Mann, A. Escalona, and L. Abrams, 2010, Morphology, structure, and
tectonic evolution of the Mona canyon (northern Mona passage) from multibeam bathymetry, side-scan
sonar, and seismic reflection profiles: Tectonics, v. 29, p. 1-23.
Xie, X., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2010, Regional provenance study of Eocene clastic sedimentary rocks
within the South America-Caribbean plate boundary zone using detrital zircon geochronology: Earth
and Planetary Science Letters, v. 291, p. 159-171.
Hayes, G., Briggs, R., Sladen, A., Fielding, E., Prentice, C., Hudnut, K., Mann, P., Taylor, F., Crone, A.,
Gold, R., Ito, T., and Simons, M., 2010, Complex rupture during the 12 January, 2010, Haiti
earthquake: Nature Geosciences, v. 3, p. 800-805.
Hornbach, M., Braudy, J., Briggs, R., Cormier, M., Davis, M., Diebold, J., Dieudonne, N., Douilly, R.,
Frohlich, C., Gulick, S., Johnson, H., Mann, P., McHugh, M., Ryan-Mishkin, K., Prentice, C., Seeber,
L., Sorlien, C., Steckler, M., Symithe, S., Taylor, F., and Templeton, J., 2010, High tsunami frequency
as a result of combined strike-slip faulting and coastal landslides: Nature Geosciences, v. 3, p. 783-788.
Prentice, C., Mann, P., Crone, A., Gold, R., Hudnut, K., Briggs, R., Koehler, R., and Jean, P., 2010, Seismic
hazard of the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault zone inferred from paleoseismology: Nature
Geosciences, v. 3, p. 789-793.
Hayman, N., Grindlay, N., Perfit, M., Mann, P., Leroy, S., and Mercier de Lepinay, 2010, Oceanic core
complex development as the ultraslow-spreading Mid-Cayman spreading center: Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems, Q0AG02, 2011.
Hornbach, M., Mann, P., Taylor, F., and Bowen, S., 2010, Estimating the age of near-shore carbonate slides
using coral reefs and erosional markers: A case study from Curacao, Netherlands Antilles: Sedimentary
Record, v. 8, p. 4-10.

2009 MS theses from students supported by the CBTH project (2)

Autret, E., 2009, Regional Geological Interpretation of Offshore Guyana Based on Subsurface Data,
unpublished MS thesis, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, 57 p. (supervised by A.
Escalona at the University of Stavanger, Norway).
Taboada, G., 2009, Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the northeastern Maturin foreland basin, Venezuela,
unpublished MS thesis, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 113 p.

2009 presentations (15)

Alvarez, T., L. J. Wood, and P. Mann, 2009, Three-dimensional relationships between synchronous normal
faulting, folding and sedimentation in the Columbus channel, offshore southern Trinidad, AAPG
Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, AAPG.
Bingham, L., A. Escalona, I. Norton, and P. Mann, 2009, GIS-Based Hydrocarbon Resource Map of the
Mexican Sector of the Gulf of Mexico, AAPG Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, AAPG.
Emmet, P., and P. Mann, 2009, Hydrocarbon Potential of the Nicaraguan Rise Based on Reevaluation of
vintage Seismic and Well Data from the 1970s, AAPG Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, AAPG.
Escalona, A., P. Mann, and L. Bingham, 2009, Hydrocarbon exploration plays in the greater Caribbean region
and neighboring provinces, EAGE Annual Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, EAGE.
Jiang, X., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2009, Tectonostratigraphic and Hydrocarbon Framework of the
Colombian Offshore Margin from the Magdalena Delta to Panama, AAPG Annual Conference,
Denver, Colorado, AAPG.
Benford, B., P. Mann, C. Prentice, W. King, C. DeMets, M. Grandison, and B. Tikoff, 2008, Late Quaternary
activity and seismogenic potential of the Gonave microplate: South Coast fault zone of southern
Jamaica, American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, American
Geophysical Union, p. poster.
Mann, P., and M. Horn, 2009, Tectonostratigraphic and structural setting of giant oil and gas clusters in the
Sub-Andean foreland basin and Pacific-Caribbean forearc region, X Simposio Boliariano meeting,
Cartagena, Colombia.
Norton, I., A. Escalona, P. Mann, and L. Lawver, 2009, Mesozoic Caribbean plate reconstructions based on a
revised fit of Precambrian and Paleozoic terranes in northwestern South America and Central America,
AAPG Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, AAPG.
Punnette, S., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2009, Tectonic and Stratigraphic Setting of Gas Fields of the North
Coast Marine Area, Offshore Northern Trinidad and Tobago Basin, AAPG Annual Conference,
Denver, Colorado, AAPG.
Taboada, G., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2009, Are widespread flexure-related normal faults in the Eastern
Venezuelan foreland basin hosting undiscovered oil fields in the underexplored, far eastern part of the
basin?, X Simposio Boliariano meeting, Cartagena, Colombia.
Taboada, G., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2009, Tectonic Controls for Three Main Subsidence Phases of the
Eastern Venezuelan Foreland Basin in the Region of the Orinoco Delta, AAPG Annual Conference,
Denver, Colorado, AAPG.
Vence, E., D. Contreras, P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2009, Subsurface structure of a 400-km long segment of
the Oca-Ancon right-lateral fault zone from the offshore margin of Colombia to the Falcon basin of
Venezuela, X Simposio Boliariano meeting, Cartagena, Colombia.
Xie, X., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2009, Impact of Tectonic Setting and Diagenetic History on the Reservoir
Potential of Eocene to Miocene On- and Offshore, Deepwater Sandstones, Northern South America,
AAPG Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, AAPG.
Vargas, C., 2009, Potential de hidrocarburos en Colombia, Colombian Petroleum Show, Bogota, Colombia,
Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos.
Vargas, C., C. Gomez, L. Briceño, and C. Rey, 2009, Morphologic expression of accretion processes along
the Pacific margin of Colombia inferred from high-resolution bathymetric data, AGU annual meeting,
San Francisco, California, American Geophysical Union.

2008 theses from students supported by the CBTH project (2)

Contreras, D., 2008, Defining the northeastern boundary of the supergiant Maracaibo foreland basin,
Venezuela: Master of Science thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 184 p.
Vence, E., 2008, Subsurface structure, stratigraphy, and regional tectonic controls of the Guajira margin of
northern Colombia: Master of Science thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 128 p.

2008 presentations (6)

Contreras, D., P. Mann, A. Escalona, and M. Nunez, 2008, Structural and stratigraphic correlations across the
Burro Negro fault zone, northeastern margin of the Maracaibo supergiant basin, American Association
of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, AAPG.
Escalona, A., P. Mann, and L. Bingham, 2008, Hydrocarbon exploration plays in the great Caribbean region
and neighboring provinces, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, San Antonio, Texas,
AAPG.
Jiang, X., P. Mann, A. Escalona, and I. Filina, 2008, Structure and stratigraphy of the Tobago-Barbados
Ridge and its implications for hydrocarbons in the Barbados offshore area, American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, San Antonio, Texas, AAPG.
Vence, E., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2008, Tectonic controls on Middle Eocene to recent stratigraphic
sequences along the Guajira margin of northern Colombia, American Association of Petroleum
Geologists annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, AAPG.
Xie, X., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2008, Paleogene Deep-water Sandstone Provenance and Reservoir
Quality of Offshore Areas of Northern South America, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, AAPG.
Xie, X., P. Mann, and A. Escalona, 2008, Paleogeography, Paleodrainage Systems, and Tectonic
Reconstructions of Eocene Northern South America Constrained by U-Pb Detrital Zircon
Geochronology, AGU Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, AGU.

2008 publications (5)

Christeson, G. L., P. Mann, A. Escalona, and T. J. Aitken, 2008, Crustal structure of the Caribbean-
northeastern South America arc-continent collision zone: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 113, p.
1-19.
Wallace, L., Ellis, S., and Mann, P., 2008, A collisional model for rapid, forearc block rotations, arc
curvature, and episodic back-arc rifting in subduction settings: Geochemistry, Geophysics, and
Geosystems, 10, Q05001 doi:10.1029/2008GC002220
Hornbach, M., Mondziel, S., Grindlay, N., Frohlich, C., and Mann, P., 2008, Did a submarine slide trigger the
1918 Puerto Rico tsunami? Science of Tsunami Hazards, v. 27, p. 22-31.
Funk, J., Mann, P., McIntosh, K., and Stephens, J., 2008, Cenozoic tectonics of the Nicaraguan depression,
Nicaragua, and Median trough, El Salvador, based on seismic reflection profiling and remoting sensing
data: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121, p. 1491-1521. doi:10.1130/B26428.1
Wallace, L., Ellis, S., and Mann, P., 2008, Tectonic block rotation, arc curvature, and back-arc rifting:
Insights into these processes in the Mediterranean and in the western Pacific, in E. Catlos, editor,
Donald D. Harrington Symposium on the Geology of the Aegean, IOP Conference Series, Earth and
Environmental Science, v. 2, doi: 10.1088/1755-1307/2/1/012010.

2007 theses (3)

Funk, J. 2007. Cenozoic Tectonics of the Nicaraguan Depression, Nicaragua, and Median Trough, El
Salvador based on seismic reflection profiling and remote sensing data. Master of Science, University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, 188 p.
Kroehler, M., 2007, Tectonics and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Venezuelan Basin, Caribbean Sea: Master of
Science thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 108 p.
Soto, M. D. 2007. Structural and basinal architecture and active strike-slip faulting of the eastern offshore
area of Trinidad. Master of Science thesis, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 109 p.

2007 presentations (14)

Bingham, L., Escalona, A. & Mann, P. 2007. Building an Integrated, Digital Database Using HTML and
GIS Tools: A Case Study for the Northern South American Petroleum Province. American Association
of Petroleum Geologists: Long Beach, California.
Bingham, L., Escalona, A. & Mann, P. 2007. Building an integrated, digital database using HTML and GIS
tools: A case study for the northern South American petroleum province. Geological Society of
Trinidad and Tobago: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Bingham, L., W. P. King, and P. Mann, 2007, GIS-Based Active Fault Map of the Caribbean Plate Margins,
Geological Society of America annual meeting, Denver, CO, GSA.
Castellanos, H., Escalona, A., Rodriguez, L. & Mann, P. 2006. Tectonic and stratigraphic controls on the
Orinoco heavy oil belt, eastern Venezuela foreland basin. AAPG annual meeting. Houston. CD-
ROM,
Contreras, D., Mann, P., Escalona, A. & Nunez, M. 2007. Structure, Stratigraphy and Gas Potential of the
Northwestern Eocene Maracaibo foreland basin, Western Venezuela. American Association of
Petroleum Geologists: Long Beach, California.
El-Mowafy, H., Mann, P. & Escalona, A. 2007. Hydrocarbon Potential of the Aruba and Western Curacao
Basins, Offshore Venezuela. American Association of Petroleum Geologists: Long Beach, California.
Escalona, A. & Mann, P. 2007. Overview of the subsurface geology of on and offshore northern South
America - Implications for hydrocarbon exploration. Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago: Port
of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Escalona, A., Mann, P. & Lavier, L. 2007. Kinematic Model Linking Basin Subsidence and Fault Evolution
Along the Obliquely Convergent South America-Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone. American
Association of Petroleum Geologists: Long Beach, California.
Hanzlik-Valentin, M., Mann, P., Escalona, A., Grindlay, N. R. & Abrams, L. 2007. Reconstructing
Paleogeography and Sea-level History of Western Puerto Rico Using High-resolution 2D Seismic
Profiles. American Association of Petroleum Geologists: Long Beach, California.
King, W. P., L. Bingham, P. Mann, C. DeMets, and M. D. Wiggins-Grandison, 2007, Possible existence of an
unidentified, seismogenic fault zone along the southern coast of Jamaica: A compilation of earthquake
and remote sensing data, Geological Society of America annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, GSA.
Mann, P., Garciacaro, E., Soto, M. D. & Escalona, A. 2007. 3D anatomy of the Columbus foreland basin,
eastern offshore Trinidad. Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago: Port of Spain, Trinidad and
Tobago
Mann, P., Horn, M. & Cross, I. 2007. Emerging Trends from 69 Giant Oil and Gas Fields Discovered from
2000-2006. American Association of Petroleum Geologists: Long Beach, California. (Available
online at: http://www.conferencearchives.com/aapg2007/sessions/player.html?sid=07041210)
Nordfjord, S., Escalona, A., Mann, P. & Galloway, W. 2007. Linking Tectonic and Sedimentary Events in
the Northern Caribbean and Southern Gulf of Mexico. American Association of Petroleum Geologists:
Long Beach, California.
Vence, E., Escalona, A., Mann, P. & El-Mowafy, H. 2007. Along-Strike Continuity of Caribbean Tectonic
Terranes and Their Controls on Source and Reservoir Rocks, Offshore Colombia and Venezuela.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists: Long Beach, California.

2007 publications (9)

Gorney, D., Escalona, A., Mann, P., Magnani, M. B. and BOLIVAR study group, 2007, Chronology of
Cenozoic tectonic events in western Venezuela and the Leeward Antilles based on integration of
offshore seismic reflection data and on-land geology. AAPG Bulletin, 91, p. 653-684.
Mann, P., 2007, Global catalogue, classification, and tectonic origins of restraining and releasing bends on
active and ancient strike-slip fault systems: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 290,
p. 13-142.
Mann, P., DeMets, C., and Wiggins-Grandison, M., 2007, Toward a better understanding of the late Neogene
strike-slip restraining bend in Jamaica: Geodetic, geologic, and seismic constraints: in Cunningham, D.,
and Mann, P., eds., Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining Bends, Geological Society of London Special
Publication, p. 239-253.
Soto, M. D., Mann, P., Escalona, A. & Wood, L. 2007. Late Holocene strike-slip offset of a subsurface
channel interpreted from three-dimensional seismic data, eastern offshore Trinidad. Geology, 35, p.
859-862.
Mann, P., 2007, Overview of the tectonic history of northern Central America, in Mann, P. (editor), Geologic
and tectonic development of the Caribbean plate boundary in northern Central America: Geological
Society of America Special Paper 428, p. 1-20.
Rogers, R., and Mann, P., 2007, Transtensional deformation of the North America-Caribbean plate boundary
zone, in Mann, P. (editor), Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean plate boundary in
northern Central America, Geological Society of America Special Paper 428, p. 37-64.
Rogers, R., Mann, P., and Emmet, P., 2007, Tectonic terranes of the Chortis block based on integration of
regional aeromagnetic and geologic data, in Mann, P. (editor), Geologic and tectonic development of
the Caribbean plate boundary in northern Central America: Geological Society of America Special
Paper 428, p. 65-88.
Rogers, R., Mann, P., and Scott, R., 2007, Cretaceous intra-arc rifting, sedimentation, and basin inversion in
east-central Honduras, in Mann, P. (editor), Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean plate
boundary in northern Central America: Geological Society of America Special Paper 428, p. 89-128.
Rogers, R., Mann, P., Emmet, P. and Venable, M., 2007, Colon fold belt of Honduras: Evidence for late
Cretaceous collision between the continental Chortis block and intra-oceanic Caribbean arc, in Mann,
P., editor, Geologic and tectonic development of the Caribbean plate boundary in northern Central
America: Geological Society of America Special Paper 428, p. 129-150.

2006 theses from students supported by the CBTH project (2)

Garciacaro, E. J. 2006. Stratigraphic architecture and basin fill evolution of a plate margin basin, eastern
offshore Trinidad and Venezuela. Master of Science thesis, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 150
p.
Hanzlik-Valentin, M., 2006, Late Quaternary seismic stratigraphy and structure of the western insular shelf
margin of Puerto Rico: unpublished MS thesis, University of Texas, Austin, 94 p.

2006 Presentations (8)

Escalona, A. 2006. Multiphase Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern Venezuela and its Offshore Area:
Implications for the Distribution of Source and Reservoir Rocks. AAPG Annual Meeting. Houston.
Data on CD-ROM,
Escalona, A. and Mann, P. 2006. Oil and gas prospects in the Venezuelan offshore area identified using a
regional grid of 2D seismic lines. AAPG Annual Meeting. Houston. Data on CD-ROM,
Garciacaro, E., Mann, P., Escalona, A. and Wood, L. 2006. Regional Structure, Tectonic History, and
Petroleum Systems of the Obliquely Colliding Columbus Foreland Basin. AAPG Annual Meeting.
Houston. Data on CD-ROM,
Mann, P. 2006. The Risk of Tsunamis in the Northern Caribbean. Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 86, p. 21-25.
Mann, P., Christeson, G., Escalona, A., Levander, A., Zelt, C., Magnani, B., Sawyer, D. and Schmitz, M.
2006. Plumbing the Depths of the Caribbean-South American Arc-Continent Collisional Zone Using
Long Seismic Reflection and Refraction Transects. AAPG Annual Meeting. Houston, Texas.
Mann, P., Hippolyte, J. and Weber, J. 2006. Neogene Tectonic Phases of Central and Southern Trinidad
Based on Brittle Tectonic Analysis of Faults Exposed in Coastal Cliffs and Rock Quarries. AAPG
Annual Meeting. Houston, Texas.
Mann, P., Horn, M. and Cross, I. 2006. Tectonic Setting of 31 Giant Oil and Gas Fields Discovered from
2000-2005: Implications for Future Discovery Trends. AAPG Annual Meeting. Houston, Texas.
Soto, M. D., Mann, P. and Wood, L. 2006. Structural and Stratigraphic Evidence for the Offshore Extension
of the Central Range Fault Zone of Trinidad. AAPG Annual Meeting. Houston. Data on CD-ROM,

2006 publications (13)

Mann, P. and Escalona, A. 2006. Introduction to the Maracaibo Basin theme issue. AAPG Bulletin, 90, p.
443-444.
Mann, P., Escalona, A. and Castillo, M. 2006. Regional geologic and tectonic setting of the Maracaibo
supergiant basin, western Venezuela. The America Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 90,
p. 445-478.
Escalona, A. and Mann, P. 2006. Tectonic Controls of the Right-Lateral Burro Negro Tear Fault on
Paleogene Structure and Stratigraphy, Northeastern Maracaibo Basin. AAPG Bulletin, 90, p. 479-504.
Duerto, L., Escalona, A. and Mann, P. 2006. Deep structure of the Merida Andes and Sierra de Perija
mountain fronts, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Bulletin, 90, p. 505-528.
Castillo, M. V. and Mann, P. 2006. Cretaceous to Holocene structural and stratigraphic development in
south Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, inferred form well and three-dimensional seismic data. AAPG
Bulletin, 90, p. 529-565.
Escalona, A. and Mann, P. 2006. Sequence-stratigraphic analysis of Eocene clastic foreland basin deposits in
central Lake Maracaibo using high-resolution well correlation and 3-D seismic data. AAPG Bulletin,
90, p. 581-623.
Escalona, A. and Mann, P. 2006. An overview of the petroleum system of Maracaibo Basin. The America
Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 90, p. 657-678.
Escalona, A. 2006. Petrophysical and seismic properties of lower Eocene clastic rocks in the central
Maracaibo Basin. AAPG Bulletin, 90, p. 679-696.
Mann, P., Peterson, L. and Droxler, A. W., 2006. Tectonics, Circulation and Climate in the Caribbean
Gateway. JOI News, v. 8.
Mann, P., Rogers, R. and Gahagan, L. 2006. Overview of Plate Tectonic History and its Unresolved
Tectonic Problems. In Bundschuh, J. & Alvarado, G. E. (eds) Central America: Geology, Resources
and Hazards. Taylor and Francis/Balkema, 1, 201-237.
Mann, P., 2006, The risk of tsunamis in the northern Caribbean, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, v. 86, no. 1, p. 21-25.
Moscardelli, L., Wood, L. J., Mann, P., 2006, Mass-transport complexes and associated processes in the
offshore area of Trinidad and Venezuela, AAPG Bulletin, v. 90, p. 1059-1088
Levander, A., Schmitz, M., Ave Lallmant, H., Zelt, C., Sawyer, D., Magnani, M., Mann, P., Christeson, G.,
Wright, J., Pavlis, G., and Pindell, J., 2006, Evolution of the southern Caribbean plate boundary: EOS,
v. 87, no. 9, 28 February, 2006, p. 97-100.

2005 theses from students supported by the CBTH project (1)

Gorney, D., 2005, Chronology of Cenozoic Tectonic Events in Western Venezuela and the Dutch Antilles
Islands Based on Integration of Offshore Seismic Reflection Data and Onland Geology: Master of
Science thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 90 p.

2005 presentations (3)

Christeson, G. L., Aitken, T. J., Mann, P. and Escalona, A. 2005. BOLIVAR Project: A New Model for
Grenada and Tobago Basin Evolution. AGU Annual meeting. San Francisco, California.
Garciacaro, E., Mann, P., Escalona, A. and Wood, L. 2005. Anatomy of an Actively Evolving Foreland
Basin Inferred from BOLIVAR Project 2D Lines and Merged 3D Seismic Volumes, Columbus Basin,
Eastern Offshore Trinidad. AGU annual meeting. San Francisco, California.
Hanzlik-Valentin, M., Mann, P., Abrams, L. and Grindlay, N. 2005. Late Quaternary seismic stratigraphy
and structure of the western insular shelf margin of Puerto Rico. AGU Annual meeting. San
Francisco, California.

2005 publications (1)

Sullivan, S., Wood, L., and Mann, P., 2005, Distribution, nature, and origin of mobile mud features offshore
Trinidad, Gulf Coast Societies-SEPM 24th Bob F.Perkins Research Conference, p. 840-867.