Petroleum Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Adriatic Basin, Offshore Croatia

Abstract

+ Offshore Croatia is a relatively underexplored area with no oilfields currently on production. Exploration commenced in 1970 and

Active Fold‐Thrust Belt to Foreland Transition in Northern Adria, Italy, Tracked by Seismic Reflection Profiles and GPS Offshore Data

“…Most data used in this work derive from the ViDEPI public database (http://www.videpi.com), mainly consisting of 2‐D seismic‐reflection profiles from the “A” Italian commercial zone (northern Adriatic area), borehole composite logs, and structural maps in the time domain (Figure 3; seismic reflection profiles from the ViDEPI project organized in a 3‐D environment by means of Move® software are available in the GFZ Data Services Repository: http://doi.org/10.5880/fidgeo.2020.027, Maffucci et al, 2020). Furthermore, we collected seismic profiles, structural geological maps, and geological profiles from Bally (1986), Argnani (1998), Franciosi and Vignolo (2002), Casero (2004), Finetti and Del Ben (2005), Fantoni and Franciosi (2009), Kastelic et al (2013), Wrigley et al (2015), and Amadori et al (2019).…”

The Messinian salinity crisis in the Adriatic foredeep: Evolution of the largest evaporitic marginal basin in the Mediterranean

“…A) Geological map of the Central and Southern Apennines and, in the inset (B), a schematic structural map of Italy. The map includes: i) the location of the boreholes used for this study; ii) the main MSC basins, both outcropping (after Manzi, 2001;Roveri et al, 2003;Manzi et al, 2005; and buried under the Po plain (after Manzi, 2001;Roveri et al, 2003;Rizzini, 2005;Ghielmi et al, 2013;Rossi et al, 2015); iii) the extension in the Adriatic offshore of the MSC deposits (modified from CNR map) below the Pliocene units; iv) the main tectonic structures (modified from CNR map); v) the main diapirs of Triassic evaporites and the distribution of the Dalmatian Mesozoic Platform deposit (modified after Wrigley et al, 2015); vi) the extension in the Adriatic offshore of the MSC deposits (modified from CNR map) below the Pliocene units; vii) the location of the boreholes used for this study.…”

Paleoecology and proliferation of the bivalve Chondrodonta joannae (Choffat) in the upper Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) Adriatic Carbonate Platform of Istria (Croatia)

“…The carbonate successions of the Istrian Peninsula belongs to the Adriatic Carbonate Platform (AdCP), which was one of the largest Mesozoic carbonate platforms of the Peri-Mediterranean region, which developed as an isolated platform during the rifting phase that dismantled and drowned the extensive Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic platform with the creation of a series of basinal areas such as the Adriatic/Belluno Basin, which borders the AdCP to the west (e.g., Winterer and Bosellini, 1981;Zappaterra, 1994;Ti ljar et al, 2002;Veli et al, 2003;Vlahovi et al, 2005;Ca ini et al, 2015;Wrigley et al, 2015). The drifting phase, related to the opening of the Alpine Tethys, created a broad passive margin and the AdCP experienced a general thermal subsidence, resulting in the formation of a thick stack of shallow-water carbonate sediments (up to 8 km, Br i et al, 2017) from the Jurassic until the Eocene time (Ti ljar et al, 2002;Vlahovi et al, 2005).…”

“…With the SW migration of Dinaric fold-and-thrust belt, the foreland basin started to subside, filling with flysch deposits accumulated in the foredeep, atop the previously deposited carbonate successions (Fig. 1B) (Wrigley et al, 2015).…”