Burial and temperature of Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks in the Northwest German Basin

Neunzert, Gregor Helmut; Gaupp, R.; Littke, Ralf

doi:10.1127/zdgg/147/1996/183

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“…Both reservoirs are sealed up by superimposed salt layers. The natural gas stored in them comes mainly from the coal beds of the Carboniferous (see (Gerling, Kockel, & Krull, 1999;Schoell, 1984)), which have experienced a burial history in Northwest Germany (Cimmerian inversion included) as portrayed in Figure 11 in a generalized manner (Gerling et al, 1999;Neunzert, Gaupp, & Littke, 1996).…”

Section: Natural Gas Fields In Northwest Germanymentioning

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Albert Einstein, World of Dices and Hydrocarbon System Analysis

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Albert Einstein, Caesar and others have used dices as a metaphor for risks and probabilities; indirectly reverting to the experience human kind may have with natural processes in its environment contemporarily with human evolution. It will be shown for example by concentrating on the exploration of hydrocarbons that the rules of a dice-game can be used to better understand the importance of the number of ruling parameters (dices), in this case geological parameters. Especially the Rotliegend Gas Play of the North German Basin belongs to the very complex hydrocarbon systems with more than 70 independent parameters. The Dutch Rotliegend Play for comparison can be characterized by only 10 parameters and is therefore of a simple type. Processes on earth like the formation of systems of hydrocarbon fields as well as environmental systems (e.g. river systems, lakes, islands, sedimentary basins) are subordinated to the dice of nature like in a Casino and are steered invisibly by a selection of rules of the game that one understands as natural laws. The complexity of a system as well as the variedness of its “members” that may be found in anthropogenic systems as well (different properties in thinking, self-reflection, feedback-capabilities, combative and ambitious behavior of individuals with the target to climb upwards in a ranking matrix) is decided by the number of the influencing parameters, represented by dices. Like in a dice-game the exploration of hydrocarbons is unsolvable connected to luck and bad-luck, coincidence and necessity, and to past and future.

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Section: Natural Gas Fields In Northwest Germanymentioning

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“…Intense burial diagenesis at depths of >2,000 m, in particular in the northern CEB, and related maximum burial temperatures of >100 °C (e.g., Neunzert et al, 1996;Hoth, 1997;Thomson and Zeh, 2000;Friberg, 2001;Rodon and Littke, 2005), may explain why ash beds were not observed within fine-grained successions of the Stuttgart Formation so far. As described from Mesozoic strata elsewhere in the CEB, fine-grained ash underwent argillization during early diagenesis before cementation could preserve typical textures (Jeans et al, 2000).…”

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Zircon of Triassic Age in the Stuttgart Formation (Schilfsandstein)—Witness of Tephra Fallout in the Central European Basin and New Constraints on the Mid-Carnian Episode

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2021

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The Carnian Stuttgart-Formation (Schilfsandstein) of the Central European Basin contains relics of Triassic volcanic detritus in form of euhedral zircon grains and authigenic analcime. Multiple LA-ICP-MS spot analyses of single zircon crystals from an outcrop near Heilbronn (SW Germany) yielded weighted average 206Pb/238U ages between 250 and 230 Ma, providing evidence for tephra fallout in the southern part of the Central European Basin related to Olenekian, Anisian–Ladinian and Carnian volcanic activity. The tephra was probably transported by monsoonal circulations from volcanic centres of the NW Tethys to the Central European Basin. The four youngest zircon crystals gave a weighted average 206Pb/238U age of 231.1 ± 1.6 Ma (10 analyses), which is interpreted to date syn-depositional tephra fallout into the fluvial Lower Schilfsandstein Member of the Stuttgart Formation. This new maximum depositional age provides the first evidence that deposition of the Stuttgart Formation, which represents the type-example of the mid-Carnian episode, a global episode of enhanced flux of siliciclastic detritus and related environmental perturbations, occurred during the Tuvalian 2 substage at ca. 231 Ma, about 3 million years later than suggested by previous correlations. Zircon grains with weighted average 206Pb/238U ages of 236.0 ± 1.2 Ma (n = 17) and 238.6 ± 1.5 Ma (n = 6) and 206Pb/238U ages between 241 ± 6 and 250 ± 3 Ma point to the presence of tephra in early Carnian to Olenekian strata of the Keuper to Buntsandstein Groups. Traces of these reworked tephra were incorporated into the Stuttgart Formation due to fluvial erosion in the southern Central European Basin and at its margins.

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A pyrolytic study of the speciation and isotopic composition of nitrogen in carboniferous shales of the North German Basin

Jurisch

Krooß

2008

Organic Geochemistry

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Burial and temperature of Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks in the Northwest German Basin

Cited by 11 publications

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Albert Einstein, World of Dices and Hydrocarbon System Analysis

Albert Einstein, World of Dices and Hydrocarbon System Analysis

Zircon of Triassic Age in the Stuttgart Formation (Schilfsandstein)—Witness of Tephra Fallout in the Central European Basin and New Constraints on the Mid-Carnian Episode

A pyrolytic study of the speciation and isotopic composition of nitrogen in carboniferous shales of the North German Basin

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