Marine and Petroleum Geology

Editor-in-Chief: O. Catuneanu Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, 1-26 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, T6G 2E3, Canada, Fax: +1 7804927598, Emeritus Founding Editor: D.G. Roberts 266 Chemin de la Promenade, 74920 Combloux Haute Savoie, France, Associate Editors: G. Abbott Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK, I.S Al-Aasm University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada and Petroleum Institute of Abu Dhabi, A.C. Aplin Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK, L.B. Aspler Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, USA, A. Bell Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., Rijswijk, Netherlands, B. Bennett University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, V. Blinova Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, R. Boswell U.S. Department of Energy, Morgantown, WV, USA, B. Bosworth Apache Egypt Companies, Cairo, Egypt, M. Boujana EgalSoftware, Caracas, Venezuela, A. Bumby University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, P. Corcoran University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, J. Craig Eni S.p.A., Milan, Italy, C. Cranganu Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA, A. Croitoru University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, P.G. Eriksson University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, A. Escalona University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway, T. Gentzis Core Laboratories, Houston, TX, USA, P. Gianolla Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, T. Hadlari Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada, A.D. Hanson University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA, N.B. Harris University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, M.S. Hendrix University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA, E.E. Hiatt University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI, USA, J.M. Holbrook Texas Christian University, Texas, TX, USA, M. Ito Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, M. Ivanov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, A.S. Kale Navi Mumbai, India, J.A. MacEachern Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, A. J MacNeil Imperial Oil Resources, Calgary, AB, Canada, P. Mann The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, A.W. Martinius Statoil, Trondheim, Norway, S. Morad The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, B.R. Pratt University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, N. Preto Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy, P. Pufahl Acadia University, Wolfville, Canada, P.M. Shannon University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, K. Sobornov Shell Exploration and Production Services (RF) B.V., Moscow, Russian Federation, R.J. Steel The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, F. Surlyk University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark, K.G. Taylor University of Manchester, Manchester, England, UK, J.C. Tipper Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, H. Verweij TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, J. Wendebourg Total, Paris, France, H. Westphal Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Y Yang University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China