Architecture and growth history of a Miocene carbonate platform from 3D seismic reflection data; Luconia province, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia

Zampetti, Valentina; Schlager, Wolfgang; Konijnenburg, Jan-Henk van; Everts, Arnout-Jan

doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2004.01.006

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“…The dominant role on the development of the carbonate platform and reef deposits is played by water depth, which is a response of the interplay of relative sea level changes and tectonic subsidence (Wilson 1999;Zampetti et al 2004;Sattler et al 2009;Wu et al 2008;Xie et al 2011). A 100 m high euphotic zone could have a large growth potential of reefs and carbonate platforms, while shallow water carbonates would be drowned when the rate of increase of water depth is greater than the rate of carbonate accumulation (Schlager and Camber 1986).…”

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“…This region has been also confirmed as the site of important deep water oil and gas reservoirs (Sales et al 1997;Zampetti et al 2004). In this study, we present two high-resolution multi-channel seismic profiles across the Reed Bank area of South China Sea to document the seismic characteristics of carbonate platform and different types of carbonates, the interplay between tectonics, sea level change and depositional rates resulting in a complex platform geometry and the geologic evolution models.…”

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Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

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Dong

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Mar Geophys Res

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We have analyzed two recently acquired multichannel seismic profiles across the Reed Bank area, South China Sea. A detailed seismic interpretation coupled with drilling data has proved the occurrence of a wide carbonate platform, developed between the Late Oligocene and the Early Miocene (32-20 Ma). The top of these carbonates is an important regional unconformity, corresponding to a strong and continuous seismic reflector. An age of about 20 Ma is inferred for this reflector, acting as a regional unconformity marking the cessation of seafloor spreading with an erosional/non-depositional hiatus, spanning 3 or 4 m.y. The time interval during which the carbonate platforms formed is concurrent with the opening of the South China Sea. The reconstruction of the tectonic subsidence in this area has shown a decrease in rate of subsidence during the drifting stage (32-17 Ma), indicating that the whole Reed Bank area was in a tectonically stable and shallow water environment for more than 10 m.y., favoring the development of shallow water carbonates. With a sharply increased subsidence rate after the end of spreading (17 Ma) and a continuously increased sea level, the carbonate platforms were drowned and died, except some structural highs with reef buildups, where the carbonate sedimentation continued to Middle Miocene. We suggest that delayed tectonic subsidence in Reed Bank area might have been related to a secondary mantle convection under the rift lasting more than about 10 m.y.

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Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

Ding

Dong

et al. 2014

Mar Geophys Res

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“…The control exercised by tectonic and eustatic processes in the formation of isolated carbonate buildups are well known in Mesozoic and Cenozoic sequences (Erlich et al 1990, Kusumastuti et al 2002, Zampetti et al 2004, Schlager 2005, Saqab and Bourget 2015, Courgeon et al 2016. Shallow marine environments created over platforms and epeiric seas were commonly associated with repeated transgressive pulses (3rd to 4th order),which allowed the establishment and growth of carbonate buildups (Saqab and Bourget 2015).…”

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“…Methodologies for identifying these structures in seismic data have greatly advanced due to interest by the petroleum industry (Saller et al 2004, Melville et al 2004. The discovery of important oil fields associated with carbonate buildup has driven efforts in academic research to study ancient and recent examples of carbonate systems in rift marginal basins (Sarg et al 1995, Kuznetsov 1997, Kusumastuti et al 2002, Zampetti et al 2004, Ronchi et al 2010, Burgess et al 2012). …”

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Carbonate Buildups in the Pernambuco Basin, NE Brazil

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Barbosa

Oliveira

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An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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The Pernambuco Basin represents one of the most prominent regions for deep water oil and gas exploration off the Brazilian coast. This study aims to identify and describe the occurrence of carbonate buildups in the offshore regions of the basin. The study was based on an analysis of a set of 143 2D timemigrated seismic sections that cover the offshore region of the Pernambuco Basin. An interpretation of the seismic dataset was used to define the main seismic sequences related to the main regional pulses of deposition and to identify three main groups of carbonate buildups: 1) shelf margin reefs, 2) patch reefs, and 3) isolated carbonate buildups. The carbonate buildups formed in two main intervals during postrift sequences of the Santonian-Maastrichtian and Paleocene-Middle Miocene, which extend the known periods of carbonate deposit formation in the basin. The formation of carbonate buildups was controlled by the tectonic evolution of the Pernambuco Plateau, which created a series of paleotopographic highs that enabled the establishment of oceanographically and climatically favorable conditions for carbonate formation and deposition. These findings are important for understanding the evolution of the basin and for future evaluations of its petroleum potential.

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“…The postulate that a significant number of flooding surfaces serve as sequence boundaries in the domain of [1 9 10 6 years is based on the carbonate record (e.g. Erlich et al 1990;Saller et al 1993;Sattler et al 2009;Zampetti et al 2004). Carbonate systems may be terminated by exposure or they may drown.…”

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Ordered hierarchy versus scale invariance in sequence stratigraphy

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2009

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Sequence stratigraphy has been applied in a wide range of scales of time and space, from decimeterthick layers formed within hours to kilometer-thick basin fills formed during hundreds of millions of years. The traditional approach to practice sequence stratigraphy in this wide range of scales is to subdivide the sediment piles into an ordered hierarchy of sequence cycles of different duration and different architecture. An alternative are scaleinvariant models with fractal characteristics. Published data confirm two predictions of the ordered-hierarchy model: sequences of very short duration (\1 9 10 3 years) are parasequences bounded by flooding surfaces, very long sequences ([200 9 10 6 years) are symmetrical transgressive-regressive cycles. However, the sequence record in the range of 1 9 10 4 -200 9 10 6 years, the principal domain of sequence stratigraphy, shows a rather irregular succession of sequences with variable symmetry and bounded by flooding surfaces or exposure surfaces. For these time scales, scale-invariant models are a good first approximation, particularly because the evidence for scale-invariance and randomness in the stratigraphic record is strong: Frequency spectra of sea-level change as well as rates of sedimentation and rates of accommodation change plotted against length of observation span show basic trends indistinguishable from random walk. These trends, combined with scale-invariant sequence models may be the most efficient tools for across-the-board predictions on sequences and for locating islands of order in the sequence record.

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Architecture and growth history of a Miocene carbonate platform from 3D seismic reflection data; Luconia province, offshore Sarawak, Malaysia

Cited by 128 publications

References 20 publications

Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

Carbonate Buildups in the Pernambuco Basin, NE Brazil

Ordered hierarchy versus scale invariance in sequence stratigraphy

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