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Mark G. Rowan is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work explores a variety of topics related to geological formations and processes, geological and geophysical studies, earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geochemical analysis, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mark G. Rowan include Katherine A. Giles, Oriol Ferrer, Josep Antón Muñoz, J. Carl Fiduk, and Eduard Roca.

Mark G. Rowan has published extensively in a number of scientific venues. The main publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Basin Research
  • AAPG Bulletin

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mark G. Rowan include:

  • Passive versus active salt diapirism, 2020, AAPG Bulletin
  • Folding and fracturing of rocks adjacent to salt diapirs, 2020, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Linked detachment folds, thrust faults, and salt diapirs: Observations and analog models, 2022, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Salt tectonics and controls on halokinetic-sequence development of an exposed deepwater diapir: The Bakio Diapir, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Pyrenees, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Influence of preexisting salt diapirs during thrust wedge evolution and secondary welding: Insights from analog modeling, 2021, Journal of Structural Geology

Mark G. Rowan has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Springer International Publishing titled La Popa Basin, Nuevo León and Coahuila, Mexico in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Salt-Related Fault Families and Fault Welds in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Mark G. Rowan;Martin P. A. Jackson;Bruce D. Trudgill

  • Near-salt deformation in La Popa basin, Mexico, and the northern Gulf of Mexico: A general model for passive diapirism

    Mark G. Rowan;Timothy F. Lawton;Katherine A. Giles;Robert A. Ratliff

  • Concepts in halokinetic-sequence deformation and stratigraphy

    Katherine A. Giles;Mark G. Rowan

  • Foldbelts with early salt withdrawal and diapirism: Physical model and examples from the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Flinders Ranges, Australia

    Mark G. Rowan;Bruno C. Vendeville

  • Structural Styles and Evolution of Allochthonous Salt, Central Louisiana Outer Shelf and Upper Slope

    Mark G. Rowan

  • Passive-margin salt basins: hyperextension, evaporite deposition, and salt tectonics

    Mark G. Rowan

  • Cross Section Restoration and Balancing as Aid to Seismic Interpretation in Extensional Terranes

    Mark G. Rowan;Roy Kligfield

  • The Perdido fold belt, northwestern deep Gulf of Mexico; Part 1, Structural geometry, evolution and regional implications

    Bruce D. Trudgill;Mark G. Rowan;J. Carl Fiduk;Paul Weimer

  • A systematic technique for the sequential restoration of salt structures

    Mark G. Rowan

  • Salt-Sediment Interaction, Northern Green Canyon and Ewing Bank (Offshore Louisiana), Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Mark G. Rowan;Paul Weimer

  • Three-dimensional geometry and evolution of a segmented detachment fold, Mississippi Fan foldbelt, Gulf of Mexico

    Mark G. Rowan

  • Cross-section restoration of salt-related deformation: Best practices and potential pitfalls

    Mark G. Rowan;Robert A. Ratliff

  • The Perdido Fold Belt, Northwestern Deep Gulf of Mexico, Part 2: Seismic Stratigraphy and Petroleum Systems

    Joseph Carl Fiduk;Paul Weimer;Bruce D. Trudgill;Mark G. Rowan

  • Deep-Water, Salt-Cored Foldbelts: Lessons from the Mississippi Fan and Perdido Foldbelts, Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Mark G. Rowan;Bruce D. Trudgill;J. Carl Fiduk

  • The Effect of Allochthonous Salt on the Petroleum Systems of Northern Green Canyon and Ewing Bank (Offshore Louisiana), Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Barry C. McBride;Paul Weimer;Mark G. Rowan

  • Analysis of folding and deformation within layered evaporites in Blocks BM-S-8 & -9, Santos Basin, Brazil

    J. Carl Fiduk;J. Carl Fiduk;Mark G. Rowan

  • The Evolution of Allochthonous Salt Systems, Northern Green Canyon and Ewing Bank (Offshore Louisiana), Northern Gulf Of Mexico

    Barry C. McBride;Mark G. Rowan;Paul Weimer

  • Salt tectonics at passive margins: Geology versus models – Discussion

    Mark G. Rowan;Frank J. Peel;Bruno C. Vendeville;Virginie Gaullier

  • Sequence Stratigraphy of Pliocene and Pleistocene Turbidite Systems, Northern Green Canyon and Ewing Bank (Offshore Louisiana), Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Paul Weimer;Peter Varnai;Fadjar M. Budhijanto;Zurilma M. Acosta

  • Megaflaps adjacent to salt diapirs

    Mark G. Rowan;Katherine A. Giles;Thomas E. Hearon;J. Carl Fiduk

  • Deformation of intrasalt competent layers in different modes of salt tectonics

    Mark G. Rowan;Janos L. Urai;J. Carl Fiduk;Peter A. Kukla

  • Fold-Evolution Matrices and Axial-Surface Analysis of Fault-Bend Folds: Application to the Medina Anticline, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

    Mark G. Rowan;Roberto Linares

  • Anatomy of an exposed vertical salt weld and flanking strata, La Popa Basin, Mexico

    Mark G. Rowan;Timothy F. Lawton;Katherine A. Giles

  • Salt Deformation, Magmatism, and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity in the Espirito Santo Basin, Offshore Brazil

    Joseph C. Fiduk;Eugene R. Brush;Lynn E. Anderson;Peter B. Gibbs

  • Three-dimensional geometry and evolution of a salt-related growth-fault array : Eugene Island 330 field, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico

    Mark G. Rowan;Bruce S. Hart;Steve Nelson;Peter Barry Flemings

  • Influence of Overlapping décollements, Syntectonic Sedimentation, and Structural Inheritance in the Evolution of a Contractional System: The Central Kuqa Fold-and-Thrust Belt (Tian Shan Mountains, NW China)

    Esther Izquierdo-Llavall;Esther Izquierdo-Llavall;Eduard Roca;Huiwen Xie;Oriol Pla

  • New Applications of Computer-Based Section Construction: Strain Analysis, Local Balancing, and Subsurface Fault Prediction

    J. Geiser;P.A. Geiser;Roy Kligfield;R. Ratliff

  • Influence of preexisting salt diapirs during thrust wedge evolution and secondary welding: Insights from analog modeling

    P. Santolaria;O. Ferrer;M.G. Rowan;M. Snidero

Frequent Co-Authors

Eduard Roca
Eduard Roca University of Barcelona
Josep Anton Muñoz
Josep Anton Muñoz University of Barcelona
Timothy F. Lawton
Timothy F. Lawton The University of Texas at Austin
Bruno C. Vendeville
Bruno C. Vendeville University of Lille
Peter B. Flemings
Peter B. Flemings The University of Texas at Austin
János Urai
János Urai RWTH Aachen University
Harry H. Roberts
Harry H. Roberts Louisiana State University
Martin P. A. Jackson
Martin P. A. Jackson The University of Texas at Austin
John Suppe
John Suppe University of Houston
Gianreto Manatschal
Gianreto Manatschal University of Strasbourg

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