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Summary

The Gulf of Corinth is known as one of Earth's most active continental rift systems. The rift is still in its first stage of rifting; therefore, the sediments are well preserved and untampered, providing excellent insight into the tectonic and stratigraphic development of the rift. High quality structural analysis and three-dimensional (3D) modelling of the study area will be accomplished using the combination of field data, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and photographs. The results from this research in the Gulf of Corinth will serve as an important analogue for other extensional basins including the Norwegian Continental Shelf (e.g., The Barents Sea), where depositional and structural uncertainties of the fault syn-rift strata growth geometries are still debated. Additionally, by identifying the possibility of syn-rift deposits with absence of growth strata, this work could help the petroleum industry by highlighting cases where the conventional growth geometry evidence does not hold true. This would provide novel insight into the interpretation of syn-rift deposits on seismic data, since a majority of reservoirs appear in syn-rift deposits in highly faulted areas. The results of this work have potential implications on the syn-rift strata definition.

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