A sedimentation model of the maikop deposits of the Tuapse Basin in the Black Sea according to the results of 2-D and 3-D seismic surveys and field works in the Western Caucasus and Crimea

Mityukov, A. V.; Никишин, А. М.; Almendinger, O. A.; Болотов, С.Н.; Lavrishchev, V. A.; Myasoedov, N. K.; Rubtsova, E. V.

doi:10.3103/s0145875212020044

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“…4a) is a foredeep which was formed at the SW margin of the Greater Caucasus. The thickness of the Maikop Group reaches 5 km thick in the basin centre and decreases in the onshore area (Mityukov et al, 2012). Vincent and Kaye (2017) studied the source rock quality of the Maikop Group along the Mzimta section, where it is about 1900 m thick.…”

Section: North Caucasusmentioning

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Paratethyan Petroleum Source Rocks: An Overview

Sachsenhofer

Popov

Ćorić

et al. 2018

Journal of Petroleum Geology

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The Paratethys area extends from Central Europe to the borders of the Caspian Sea in Central Asia and hosts a significant number of petroleum provinces, many of which have been charged by Eocene to Miocene source rocks of supra‐regional significance. These include highly oil‐prone Middle Eocene marls and limestones in the Eastern Paratethys (Kuma Formation and equivalents) which are several tens of metres thick. Estimates of the source potential index (SPI) indicate that the Kuma Formation in the northern Caucasus and the Rioni Basin (Georgia) may generate 1 to 2 tons of hydrocarbons per square metre (tHC/m2). This implies that the Kuma Formation may also be an important and additional source rock in the eastern Black Sea. Oligocene and Lower Miocene pelitic rocks (Maikop Group and equivalents) are considered to be the most important source rocks in the Paratethys. Vertical variations in source potential record different stages of basin isolation that reached a maximum during the Early Oligocene (NP23) Solenovian Event. However major variations exist between different sub‐basins in the Central and the Eastern Paratethys. In the Central Paratethys, the highest quality source rocks occur in the Carpathian Basin where the Menilite Formation, several hundreds of metres thick, can generate up to 10 tHC/m2. Locally the Menilite Formation is about 1500 m thick and continues into the Lower Miocene. In these settings, the Menilite Formation can generate approximately 70 tHC/m2. In the Alpine Foreland Basin (Schöneck and Eggerding Formations) and the Pannonian Basin (Tard Clay Formation), oil‐prone source rocks are restricted to the Lower Oligocene. In the Eastern Paratethys, the best source rock intervals of the Maikop Group are typically associated with the Early Oligocene Solenovian Event. By contrast, with the exception of the Kura Basin in Azerbaijan, the potential of Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene rocks is often limited. In total, the Maikop Group may generate up to 2 tHC/m2 in the North Caucasus area and 4 tHC/m2 in the Rioni Basin. A particular source rock facies is found in the Western Black Sea where diatomaceous rocks with good oil potential accumulated in the Kaliakra Canyon during Early Miocene time. This facies may generate up to 8 tHC/m2, but is probably limited to shelf‐break canyons. Middle and Upper Miocene rocks are the main source for oil and thermogenic gas in the Pannonian Basin System, and also contributed to thermogenic hydrocarbons in the Moesian Platform and the South Caspian Basin. In addition, Upper Oligocene and Miocene rocks are the source for microbial gas in several basins including the Alpine and Carpathian foredeeps.

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Section: North Caucasusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paratethyan Petroleum Source Rocks: An Overview

Sachsenhofer

Popov

Ćorić

et al. 2018

Journal of Petroleum Geology

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“…They all indicate a growing sediment source (the Greater Caucasus) to the north (Vincent, Hyden, et al, ; Vincent et al, , , ). Seismic data from the Tuapse Trough show the spectacular geometries of these depositional systems in the subsurface (Mityukov et al, , ).…”

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Comment on “Relict Basin Closure and Crustal Shortening Budgets During Continental Collision: An Example From Caucasus Sediment Provenance” by Cowgill et al. (2016)

Vincent¹,

Saintot

Mosar

et al. 2018

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Plain Language Summary The southern slope of the Greater Caucasus mountains is the site of a former rift basin. In order to explain shortening deficits, plate deceleration, and the ~5 Ma reorganization of the Arabia‐Eurasia collision zone Cowgill et al. (2016) proposed that this basin closed ~5 Myrs ago. Within the western Greater Caucasus, at least, careful examination of sedimentological, provenance, and seismic data, however, supports an earlier ~35 Ma basin closure age. Basin closure cannot therefore be the driving mechanism for the ~5 Ma deceleration of the Arabian plate and reorganization of the Arabia‐Eurasia collision zone.

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“…The regional geological structure of the Black Sea has been under investigation since the 1980s when regional seismic lines for the entire area were published (Tugolesov et al 1985;Finetti et al 1988;Belousov & Volvovsky 1989). More recent seismic data acquired in the EBS and adjacent areas have been published by Robinson et al (1996), Afanasenkov et al (2007), Shillington et al (2008), Rangin et al (2002), Khriachtchevskaia et al (2010), Stovba et al (2009), Nikishin et al (2010), Mityukov et al (2012), Almendinger et al (2011), TPAO/BP Eastern Black Sea Project Study Group (1997), Gozhyk et al (2010) and Graham et al (2013). A set of long regional deep seismic lines acquired in 2011 in the framework of the international project "Geology Without Limits" allowed a new map of acoustic basement for the whole Black Sea to be proposed (e.g.…”

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Geological structure of the northern part of the Eastern Black Sea from regional seismic reflection data including the DOBRE-2 CDP profile

Sydorenko¹,

Stephenson

Yegorova

et al. 2016

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The margin of the northeastern Black Sea is formed by the Crimea and Kerch peninsulas separating it from the Azov Sea to the north. The age and architecture of the sedimentary successions in this area are described from exploration reflection seismic profiling acquired in the area as well as the "one-off" regional DOBRE-2 CDP profile acquired in 2007. The sediments range in age from Mesozoic to Quaternary and can be divided into five "seismostratigraphic" complexes linked to the tectono-sedimentological evolution of the area. The present regional basin architecture consists of a series of basement structural highs separating a series of sedimentary depocentres and is mainly a consequence of the compressional tectonic regime affecting the area since the Eocene and which has focused shortening deformation and uplift along the axis of the Crimea-Caucasus inversion zone on the Kerch Peninsula and Kerch Shelf of the Black Sea. Two major sedimentary basins that mainly formed during this timethe Sorokin Trough in the Black Sea and the Indolo-Kuban Trough to the north of the Kerch Peninsula in the Azov Sea-formed as marginal troughs to the main inversion zone.

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A sedimentation model of the maikop deposits of the Tuapse Basin in the Black Sea according to the results of 2-D and 3-D seismic surveys and field works in the Western Caucasus and Crimea

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Paratethyan Petroleum Source Rocks: An Overview

Paratethyan Petroleum Source Rocks: An Overview

Comment on “Relict Basin Closure and Crustal Shortening Budgets During Continental Collision: An Example From Caucasus Sediment Provenance” by Cowgill et al. (2016)

Geological structure of the northern part of the Eastern Black Sea from regional seismic reflection data including the DOBRE-2 CDP profile

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