Dynamics and active processes : the albanian natural laboratory and analogues.

Francois Roure (1) , Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth (2) , Liviu Matenco (3) , Kristaq Muska (4, 5) , Shaqir Nazai (6)

1 IFPEN - IFP Energies nouvelles
2 GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam
3 Utrecht University [Utrecht]
4 Geology Department, Polytechnic Institute
5 Nacional Scientific Center of Hydrocarbon
6 Polytechnic University of Tirana

This special issue of the Italian Journal of Geosciences provides a selection of 7 papers which have been presented during the sixth workshop of the ILP Task Force on Sedimentary Basins, hosted at the Polytechnic University of Tirana on November 7-12, 2010. More than 100 Earth scientists, professionals and students participated to this workshop, including 70% of Albanian colleagues, mainly from the Polytechnic University, geological survey, academy and oil industry, and 30% of participants from universities, research centers and companies from other European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland), as well as North and South America and the Middle-East. Plenary sessions and further discussions during the pre- and post-conference field trips (Figure 1 ), were dominantly focused on Albania, which, thanks to its extensive petroleum exploration and modern seismological and GPS networks, constitutes the best documented natural laboratory for the study of active onshore compressional systems in Europe. This conference generated excellent discussions on the 3 main topics developed below.

Keywords: Albania; ILP Task Force; Evolution of the Tethyan passive margin

Domains: Applied geology; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Global Changes

Francois Roure, Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth, Liviu Matenco, Kristaq Muska, Shaqir Nazai. Dynamics and active processes : the albanian natural laboratory and analogues.. Italian of Geosciences, 2013, 132 (2), pp.169-174. ⟨10.3301/IJG.2013.03⟩. ⟨hal-01071668⟩