Some recent publications and conference presentations:
Buddin, Tim. S., A 'Sea‐Floor to Basement' Kinematic Model for Green Canyon and Western Atwater Valley, Central Gulf of Mexico. AAPG Annual Convention 'Unmasking the Potential of Exploration & Production' April 11-14, 2010 – New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. Search and Discovery Article #90104 (2010). (Abstract)
Buddin, T., ‘‘Structural Restoration and Balancing in Passive Margins with mobile salt – a key tool for managing subsurface uncertainty’: invited keynote presentation, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, October 2010, Denver CO, USA.
R. A. Denne; E. D. Scott; T. S. Buddin; S. D. Carlson; D. P. Eickhoff; R. Hill; J. M. Spaw: Biostratigraphic, Lithologic, and Seismic Characteristics of the K/Pg Boundary Chicxulub Impact Deposit, Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90124b @2011 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, April 10-13, 2011, Houston, Texas. (Abstract)
Gianluca Grando, Zsolt Schleder, Ryan Shackleton, Graham Seed, Tim Buddin and Ken McClay, 3-D Structural Evolution of the Salt-Controlled Frampton Anticline, Atwater Valley Fold Belt, Deep Water Gulf of Mexico. AAPG Search and Discover Article #90078©2008 AAPG Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, 2008
Fernández, O., Buddin, T., Armstrong, N., MacConnell, D., Gaynor, N, 2006. 3D Restoration vs 3D Thickness Maps to Study the Evolution of Salt-Controlled Systems: An Example from the Atwater Fold Belt (Gulf of Mexico). AAPG Meeting, Houston, April 10-13, 2006. (Abstract)
Buddin, T.S., Jeff Milliken and Kent England: Angolan Margin from Up-Dip Extension to Ultra-Deepwater Compression - a Balancing Act. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Calgary, AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90039©2005 AAPG Calgary, Alberta, June 16-19, 2005 (also invited spkr. at Houston Geological Society Africa Meeting, Houston TX, Sept. 2005) (Abstract)
Jaffey, N., T. Byrd, T. Buddin and K. Meisling, : Predicting the influence of gravity-related compressional structures on the deposition of deep water sediments, integrating the numerical modeling of deep water sedimentation with 3D structural restoration; example from the Holstein field, deep water Gulf of Mexico. Compressional deformation within passive margins: nature, causes & effects. Conference of Petroleum Group, Geological Society of London, October 2005.
Orange, D. L., M. Angell, J. R. Brand, J. Thomson, T. Buddin, M. Williams, W. Hart, and W. J. Berger, III: Geologic & shallow salt tectonic setting of the Mad Dog and Atlantis fields: Relationship between salt, faults, seafloor geomorphology. The Leading Edge 23 (2004): p354-365.
Byrd, T., Meisling, K., Jaffey, N., Vines, J., Buddin, T., and E. Ekstrand., 3D Structural Restoration of Ponded-Basin Turbidite Reservoirs in a Linked Extensional-Compressional Salt Basin, Holstein Field, Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico. 2004. Vol. 24. Salt Sediment Interactions and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity: Concepts, Applications, and Case Studies for the 21st Century: GCSSEPM 24th Annual. Perkins Research Conference. Extended Abstract 965-996; DOI: 10.5724/gcs.04.24.0965 - for to article link click on arrow
Warner, M., Turner, J., Bentham, P., Buddin, T., Piggott, N., Riley, G., Mud Volcanoes of the South Caspian Basin, Advanced Research Workshop "Mud Volcanism, Geodynamics and Seismicity" May 20-22, 2003, Baku, Azerbaijan, Bulletin of Mud Volcanology, online abstracts.
Buddin, T.S., Mark C. Williams and Steve H. Hall: An Evolutionary 3D Model for the Development of the Frontal Fold-Belt, Atwater Valley and Southern Green Canyon Areas, Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico. AAPG Annual Meeting March 10-13, (2002) Houston, Texas. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Abstracts A25.
Matthews, S., Bentham, P., Buddin, T., Gibson, R., & Purnell, N. (BP). Structural model assessment in deep-water compressional settings: Exploration impact in the Gulf of Mexico & Amazon slope basins. ‘Oil & Gas in Compressional Belts’ held at the Geological Society of London, Burlington House, London on September 10–11th 2002
Grando, G., McClay, K., & Buddin, T. (University of London/BP). 3D structural evolution and kinematics of the Frampton growth fold system, Western Mississippi Fan Fold Belt, deep-water Gulf of Mexico (poster) ‘Oil & Gas in Compressional Belts’ held at the Geological Society of London, Burlington House, London, on September 10–11th 2002.
International Journal Publications
Baxter, K., Buddin, T., D.V. Corcoran & S Smith., Structural modeling of the south Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: implications for the timing, magnitude and style of crustal extension. Petroleum Geology of Ireland’s Offshore Basins. Geological Society of London Special Publication No.93, (2001), p275-290, ed’s Shannon, P., Haughton, P., & D. Corcoran.
Egan S.S., Kane S., Buddin T.S., Williams, G.D. & Hodgetts, D. Computer modeling and visualization of the structural deformation caused by movement along geological faults. (1999) Computers & Geosciences, 25, 3, p283-297.
Buddin T.S., Kane S.J., Williams G.D. & Egan S.S., A sensitivity analysis of 3D restoration techniques using vertical and inclined shear constructions (1997). Tectonophysics 269, p33-50
Williams G.D., Kane S.J., Buddin T.S., & Richards A.J. Restoration and balance of complex folded and faulted rock volumes: flexural flattening, jigsaw fitting and decompaction in three dimensions. (1997) Tectonophysics, 273, p203-218.
Egan S.S., Buddin T.S., Kane, S.J., & Williams G.D., Three-Dimensional Modeling and Visualization in Structural Geology: New Techniques for the Restoration and Balancing of Volumes. (1997) In: Proceedings of the 1996 Geoscience Information Group Conference on Geological Visualization - the intelligent picture. Electronic Geology special volume 1, paper 7, p67-82.
Buddin, T.S., Stimpson, I.G. & Williams, G.D., North Chilean fore-arc tectonics and Cenozoic plate kinematics (1993). Tectonophysics 220, 193 – 203.
Published Reports and other Conference Presentations with Abstracts
Buddin, T., Petroleum evaluation of the Aure Thrust Belt, Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea. Suva, Fiji, South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, 40pp [1993]
Buddin T.S., Stimpson, I.G., Williams G.D. Neotectonics within the continental fore-arc of northern Chile. In: Symposium International "Géodynamique Andine": résumés des communications. Paris: ORSTOM, (1990) p. 83. (Colloques et Séminaires). Symposium International "Géodynamique Andine", Grenoble (FRA), 1990/05/15-17. ISBN 2-7099-0993-6 (Abstract)
Stephen Flint, E. J. Jolley, P. Turner, G. D. Williams, T. Buddin: High-Frequency Cyclicity in Quaternary Fan-Delta Deposits of the Andean Fore-Arc: Relative Sea Level Changes and Aseismic Ridge Subduction: AAPG Search and Discovery Article #91003©1990 Abstracts, AAPG Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, June 3-6, 1990.
Buddin, T.S., Stuart S. Egan, Steve J. Kane, Graham D. Williams: Three Dimensional Restoration of Hanging-wall Volumes: A Continuum Approach: AAPG Bulletin (1996), Volume 80, page 20 (Abstract)
Buddin, T. S., G. D. Williams, S. J. Kane, and A. J. Richards: 3D Restoration of Hanging-wall Volumes - Application to a Seismic Data Set from Cardigan Bay, Offshore West of Britain : AAPG Bulletin (1997), Volume 81, pages 16 - 16 (Abstract)
Kane S. J., G. D. Williams, T. S. Buddin, S. S. Egan, and D. Hodgetts Flexural-Slip Based Restoration in 3-D; A New Approach, AAPG Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, April 6-9 (1997) Abstracts Vol. 81, Issue 13.
Egan, S.S., Buddin T.S., Hodgetts D., Kane S.J., Richards A.J. & Williams G.D.: New Techniques for the 3-D Modeling of Structural and Isostatic Processes Occurring During Continental Tectonics. Terra Nova, 9, (1997) (Abstract Supplement No 1), p172.
Smith, N.T., G.D. Williams, T.S. Buddin, S.J. Kane, A.J. Richards, S.S. Egan: 3D Modeling of Structural Restoration, Decompaction, Flexural Isostasy and Fluid Flow, AAPG Bulletin (1998) Volume 82 (Abstract).
Knipe, R.J., K. Baxter, D. Brown, T.S. Buddin, M.B. Clennell, A.B. Farmer, Q.J. Fisher, G. Jones, B. Kidd and E.A. White: The internal structure of fault damage zones and the impact on reservoir behavior. Structural Geology & Reservoir Characterization, March 1995; Imperial College, London.