Early and Late Eocene / Oligo–Miocene (!) Petroleum System on the Nicaraguan Rise: Insights from Basin and Three-dimensional Petroleum System Modeling

Carvajal-Arenas, Luis Carlos; Torrado, Lucia; Mann, Paul

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“…The Chortís block consists of different tectonic terranes with a continental and oceanic origin. Based on Baumgartner, Flores, Bandini, Girault, and Cruz (), Carvajal‐Arenas, Torrado, and Mann (), C. A. Dengo (), Geldmacher, Hoernle, van den Bogaard, Hauff, and Klügel (), Mann et al () and Rogers, Mann, and Emmet (), Rogers, Mann, Emmet, & Venable, )…”

Section: Tectonic Structure and Terrane Concept Of Southern Central Amentioning

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“…During the Paleocene to Middle Eocene turbidites of the Río Machuca Formation were locally deposited. On structural highs platform carbonates formed (Carvajal‐Arenas, Torrado, & Mann, ). Within the rapidly subsiding pull‐apart basins Lower Eocene to Recent deep‐marine to continental clastic sediments and carbonates were deposited (Figure ).…”

Section: Basin Systems Of the Southern Central American Island Arcmentioning

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“…The Lower Eocene carbonates are interbedded with lava flows and pyroclastic material. A major unconformity separates the Eocene from the Oligocene deposits (Carvajal‐Arenas et al, ; Muñoz et al, ) marking a longer period of emergence. The late Cretaceous to Eocene sedimentary sequence is bounded by an upper erosional unconformity, probably indicating contemporaneous fault‐block rotations and/or local uplifts (Sanchez et al, ).…”

Section: Basin Systems Of the Southern Central American Island Arcmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Chortís block consists of different tectonic terranes with a continental and oceanic origin. Based on Baumgartner, Flores, Bandini, Girault, and Cruz (2008), Carvajal-Arenas, Torrado, and Mann (2015), C. A. Dengo (2007) Chortís terrane in Late Cretaceous times and probably formed as the southeastern extension of the Guerrero arc of Mexico Rogers, Mann, Emmet, & Venable, 2007).…”

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“…As in the forearc basins, an important Middle Eocene to Late Oligocene unconformity is developed in the backarc area (e.g. Amann, 1993;Bowland, 1993;Brandes et al, 2009;Carvajal-Arenas et al, 2015;Mende, 2001;Muñoz et al, 1997). During this contractional phase the Moín High formed (Brandes et al, 2009).…”

Section: Middle Eocene To Oligocene Unconformitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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From incipient island arc to doubly‐vergent orogen: A review of geodynamic models and sedimentary basin‐fills of southern Central America

Brandes

Winsemann

2018

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Southern Central America is a Late Mesozoic/Cenozoic island arc that evolved in response to the subduction of the Farallón Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate in the Late Cretaceous and, from the Oligocene, the Cocos and Nazca Plates. Southern Central America is one of the best studied convergent margins in the world. The aim of this paper is to review the sedimentary and structural evolution of arc‐related sedimentary basins in southern Central America, and to show how the arc developed from a pre‐extensional intra‐oceanic island arc into a doubly‐vergent, subduction orogen. The Cenozoic sedimentary history of southern Central America is placed into the plate tectonic context of existing Caribbean Plate models. From regional basin analysis, the evolution of the southern Central American island arc is subdivided into three phases: (i) non‐extensional stage during the Campanian; (ii) extensional phase during the Maastrichtian‐Oligocene with rapid basin subsidence and deposition of arc‐related, clastic sediments; and (iii) doubly‐vergent, compressional arc phase along the 280 km long southern Costa Rican arc segment related to either oblique subduction of the Nazca plate, west‐to‐east passage of the Nazca–Cocos–Caribbean triple junction, or the subduction of rough oceanic crust of the Cocos Plate. The Pleistocene subduction of the Cocos Ridge contributed to the contraction but was not the primary driver. The architecture of the arc‐related sedimentary basin‐fills has been controlled by four factors: (i) subsidence caused by tectonic mechanisms, linked to the angle and morphology of the incoming plate, as shown by the fact that subduction of aseismic ridges and slab segments with rough crust were important drivers for subduction erosion, controlling the shape of forearc and trench‐slope basins, the lifespan of sedimentary basins, and the subsidence and uplift patterns; (ii) subsidence caused by slab rollback and resulting trench retreat; (iii) eustatic sea‐level changes; and (iv) sediment dispersal systems.

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Section: Tectonic Structure and Terrane Concept Of Southern Central Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Basin Systems Of the Southern Central American Island Arcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Basin Systems Of the Southern Central American Island Arcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: New Quantitative Plate Kinematic Reconstruction For the Camentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Middle Eocene To Oligocene Unconformitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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From incipient island arc to doubly‐vergent orogen: A review of geodynamic models and sedimentary basin‐fills of southern Central America

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2018

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Supplemental Material: Oceanic intraplate faulting as a pathway for deep hydration of the lithosphere: Perspectives from the Caribbean

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2022

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Supplemental Material: Oceanic intraplate faulting as a pathway for deep hydration of the lithosphere: Perspectives from the Caribbean

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Early and Late Eocene / Oligo–Miocene (!) Petroleum System on the Nicaraguan Rise: Insights from Basin and Three-dimensional Petroleum System Modeling

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From incipient island arc to doubly‐vergent orogen: A review of geodynamic models and sedimentary basin‐fills of southern Central America

From incipient island arc to doubly‐vergent orogen: A review of geodynamic models and sedimentary basin‐fills of southern Central America

Supplemental Material: Oceanic intraplate faulting as a pathway for deep hydration of the lithosphere: Perspectives from the Caribbean

Supplemental Material: Oceanic intraplate faulting as a pathway for deep hydration of the lithosphere: Perspectives from the Caribbean

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