Animation often provides breakthroughs in understanding how movements in one area are linked to that in another. Playing animations at normal speeds shows structures and processes in incremental detail, whereas speeding playback by manually dragging a control slider emphasizes overall displacements. Viewers learn at their own pace by replaying animations until the kinematics are absorbed, or by stopping the animation at any point for close study of a particular frame or set of frames. Animations allow viewers of differing geological expertise to quickly grasp even complex simulations or restorations in realistic detail. The ease of accessibility promotes multidisciplinary cross-fertilization of ideas on the timing of hydrocarbon migration and development of potential structural traps.
Regional extension creates grabens below and above the salt layer.
Grabens in the cover initiate reactive diapirs. Fourteen seconds of animation represent 54 hours of the original experiment. 18 potential structural traps for hydrocarbons are formed and 8 are destroyed during deformation. Our animations are in Quicktime format and can be played in Macintosh and IBM desktop computers. Feel free to download these releasable free samples of our animations .