Architecture and depositional sequences of tertiary fault-block carbonate platforms; an analysis from outcrop (Miocene, Gulf of Suez) and computer modelling

Bosence, Dan; Cross, Nigel E.; Hardy, Stuart

doi:10.1016/s0264-8172(98)00016-6

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“…Faults, as a major form of rifting movements, control the architecture and depositional sequences of fault-block carbonate platform (Bosence et al 1998;Preto et al 2011), and impact depositional environment and facies distributions of hangingwall and footwall (Wilson 1999). The platform boundary fault affects the type of slope sediments and platform geomorphology (Yilmaz 2006;Lü et al 2013;Quiquerez et al 2013).…”

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Type and evolution of carbonate platforms in Jixian Period Mesoproterozoic: southwestern margin of Ordos Basin

Chen

Xiao

et al. 2015

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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The Ordos block experienced extension in the Mesoproterozoic, during which the Longshan-Kuanping and Haiyuan rifts developed on its southwest margin. The Jixian Group (1.6-1.4 Ga) is mainly exposed on the rimmed and ramp-type platforms at the Qishan County, southwest of the Ordos block. The deposition associated with the rimmed platform margin consists of platform facies, platform edge facies, and slope facies, which are characterized by small tidal creeks, mud cracks and scour troughs, rockfalls, respectively. The ramp-type platform is dominated by platform edge facies, shelf facies and slope facies and featured by intraclastic dolostones, tempestites and debris flow sediments respectively. The syndepositional normal faults were well developed at the early stage of the rifting. Fault-related cracks and folds present in the adjacent strata. The uplift of the footwall rimmed the platform. The drag structures determine the local sedimentary environment. In the final stage of the rifting, the fault movement stopped. The surrounding rocks were undeformed. The slope became less steep, resulting in the formation of ramp-type platform. The study area in the Jixian period, Mesoproterozoic is located at a palaeocontinental margin, which has already shown good petroleum prospectivity. A clear study on the type of carbonate platforms and the evolution of the platforms can help reduce exploration risks by improve the understanding of the presence of the source rocks.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Type and evolution of carbonate platforms in Jixian Period Mesoproterozoic: southwestern margin of Ordos Basin

Chen

Xiao

et al. 2015

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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“…Since the epicontinental sea fresh-water carbonate sedimentary model was first proposed by Shaw (1964) in the 1960s, the research related to the carbonate sedimentary model has been enriched and developed constantly [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] over the past 50 years, but the current available models are inapplicable to lithofacies paleo-geography research of the Callovian-Oxfordian in the Amu Darya Basin. Similar situation happened in the Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic marine carbonates in the Sichuan Basin too.…”

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“…Shaw (1964) [2] first introduced the concepts of epicontinental sea and marginal sea and laid the foundation for the carbonate sedimentary model. Since then, many scholars have come up with new ideas on controlling factors and depositional models of carbonate sedimentation from the aspects of sea level variation, marine environment, climatic conditions and structural settings [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18], which enriched and developed the research contents of the carbonate sedimentary model. As oil and gas exploration progressed, in practice, it is still difficult to characterize the carbonate platform in detail with a certain model, although achievements have been Figure 1 (Reference [27,28]).…”

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The Carbonate Platform Model and Reservoirs’ Origins of the Callovian-Oxfordian Stage in the Amu Darya Basin, Turkmenistan

Wen

Zheng

et al. 2018

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Abstract:The Calloviane-Oxfordian carbonates in the northeastern Amu Darya Basin of southeastern Turkmenistan are composed of medium-to thick-bedded, mostly grainy limestones with various skeletal (bivalves, brachiopods, echinoderms, foraminifera, corals, and sponge) and non-skeletal grains (intraclasts, ooids and peloids). Two facies zones, six standard facies belts and some microfacies types were recognized, and sedimentary model "carbonate ramp-rimmed platform" was proposed and established that can be compared with the classical carbonate sedimentary models. In this model, favorable reservoirs not only developed in the intraplatform shoal of open platform, or reef and shoal on the platform margin, but also in the patch reefs, shoal and mound facies on the upper slope. The reservoir's pore space is dominated by intergranular and intragranular pores and fissure-pore reservoirs exist with medium porosity and medium to low permeability. Sedimentary facies and diagenetic dissolution are the key controlling factors for the development of high-quality reservoirs.

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“…7F), locally bored by bivalves and encrusted by red algae. Based on the field observations, there are three distinct coral morphologies that form coral biostromes (sensu Bosence et al, 1998), patchy-fringing corals and colonies without well-developed framework (sensu Riding, 2002). These types of corals are common in during …”

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“…Many authors have described variations in carbonate platform architecture development based on the maritime rift basin of the Gulf of Suez (e.g., Bosence et al, 1998;Cross and Bosence, 2008). This study has found that similar architectures are also recognized in the contiguous Red Sea Rift.…”

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Variations in architecture and cyclicity in fault-bounded carbonate platforms: Early Miocene Red Sea Rift, NW Saudi Arabia

Koeshidayatullah

Al‐Ramadan

Collier

et al. 2016

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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The Early Miocene was a period of active rifting and carbonate platform development in the Midyan Peninsula, NW Saudi Arabia. However, there is no published literatures available dealing with detail characterization of the different carbonate platforms in this study area.Therefore, this study aims at presenting new stratigraphic architectural models that illustrate the formation of different carbonate platforms in the region and its forcing mechanisms that likely drove their formation. This study identified the following features formed during active rifting: a) a Late Aquitanian (N4) fault-block hangingwall dipslope carbonate ramp b) a Late Burdigalian (N7-N8) isolated normal fault-controlled carbonate platform with associated slope deposits, and c) a Late Burdigalian (N7-N8) attached fault-bounded, rimmed shelf developed on a footwall fault-tip within a basin margin structural relay zone formed coinciding with the second stage of rifting. Variations in cyclicity have been observed within the internal stratigraphic architecture of each platform and also between platforms. High-resolution sequence stratigraphic analysis show parasequences observed as the smallest depositional packages (meter-scale cycles) within the platforms. The hangingwall dipslope carbonate ramp and the attached platform demonstrate aggradational-progradational parasequence stacking patterns. These locations appear to have been more sensitive to eustatic cyclicities, despite the active tectonic setting. The isolated, fault-controlled carbonate platform reveals disorganized stratal geometries in both platform-top and slope facies, suggesting a more complex interplay of rates of tectonic uplift and subsidence, variation in carbonate productivity, and resedimentation of carbonates, such that any sea-level cyclicity is obscure. This study explores the interplay between different forcing mechanisms in the evolution of carbonate platforms in active extensional tectonic regions. Characterization of detailed parasequence-scale internal architecture allows the spatial variation in syn-depositional relative base-level changes to be inferred and is critical for understanding the development of rift basin carbonate platforms. 3Such concepts may be useful for the prediction of subsurface facies relationships beyond interwell areas in hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir modeling activities.

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Architecture and depositional sequences of tertiary fault-block carbonate platforms; an analysis from outcrop (Miocene, Gulf of Suez) and computer modelling

Cited by 78 publications

References 26 publications

Type and evolution of carbonate platforms in Jixian Period Mesoproterozoic: southwestern margin of Ordos Basin

Type and evolution of carbonate platforms in Jixian Period Mesoproterozoic: southwestern margin of Ordos Basin

The Carbonate Platform Model and Reservoirs’ Origins of the Callovian-Oxfordian Stage in the Amu Darya Basin, Turkmenistan

Variations in architecture and cyclicity in fault-bounded carbonate platforms: Early Miocene Red Sea Rift, NW Saudi Arabia

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