Sequence Stratigraphy of Miocene Tide-Influenced Sandstones In the Minas Field, Sumatra, Indonesia

Willis, Brian J.; Fitris, Faizil

doi:10.2110/jsr.2012.37

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“…Glossifungites surfaces are indicators of transgressive ravinement because they characterize firmgrounds developed where superficial unconsolidated layers of sediments were eroded, and are thus indicative of time gaps and/or abrupt increases in water depth (e.g. MacEachern et al ., ; McIlroy et al ., ; Allen & Johnson, ; Willis & Fitris, ; Ainsworth et al ., ). Similarly, lags of pebbles with ferruginous cements may record sediment starvation and the transition to deeper water deposits (e.g.…”

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Syn‐rift sequence development in a fault‐controlled embayment (Early Permian Irwin River Coal Measures, Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia)

Dillinger

George

2019

Sedimentology

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Stratigraphic patterns and sequence development in tectonically active extensional basins remain poorly documented in comparison with passivemargin settings. Rift basin fills are generally characterized by coarseningupward trends in response to the rapid creation of accommodation by extensional faulting, and the progressive filling of graben during more quiescent periods. The Early Permian Irwin River Coal Measures in the Northern Perth Basin (Western Australia) record a complex stratigraphic arrangement of conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone and coal, and have been attributed to delta plain depositional environments that developed in a cool-temperate climatic setting during syn-rift activity. Sedimentary analysis of outcrop and core data from the fault-bounded Irwin Terrace is used to distinguish nine facies associations reflecting deposition in braided rivers, fixed-anastomosed channel belts, tide-influenced coastal environments and storm-affected distal bays. The broader depositional system is interpreted as a morphologically asymmetrical tide-dominated embayment with a fluvial and wave influence. The stratigraphic architecture of the Irwin River Coal Measures was strongly influenced by the evolving rift basin margin. Fault reactivation of the major basin-bounding Darling Fault in the early syn-rift phase caused footwall uplift and the inception of transverse palaeo-valleys occupied by braided fluvial systems. Fault block subsidence during the subsequent balanced, backstepping and drowning phases resulted in a dominantly retrogradational stacking pattern indicating progressive flooding of marginal-marine areas and culminating in deposition of distal marine elements. In the active rift basin, it is proposed that preservation of a shallow-marine syn-rift sequence was promoted by the geomorphological confinement of the embayed system increasing tidal current acceleration and hampering transgressive ravinement. The proposed sequence model demonstrates that transgressive successions can develop in the early syn-rift phase in response to footwall uplift and tectonic subsidence. The syn-rift sequence recording the filling of an embayment on a rift basin margin may be applied in similar tectonic and/or depositional contexts worldwide.

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Syn‐rift sequence development in a fault‐controlled embayment (Early Permian Irwin River Coal Measures, Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia)

Dillinger

George

2019

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“…Willis and Gabel, 2001;Legler et al, 2013;Legler et 821 al., 2014;Ainsworth et al, 2016;van Cappelle et al, 2016;Kurcinka et al, 822 2018;Van Yperen et al, 2020) or subsurface datasets containing 3D seismic data, densely 823 spaced wells and/or extensive cores (e.g. Hubbard et al, 2011;Willis and Fitris, 2012;Holgate et 824 al., 2013). In practice, such datasets and confident interpretations are rare.…”

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Prediction of shoreline–shelf depositional process regime guided by palaeotidal modelling

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This review demonstrates the benefit of numerical tidal modelling, calibrated by integrated comparison to the preserved stratigraphic record, and offers a refined classification and prediction of shoreline process regimes. Wider and consistent utilisation of these concepts, and numerical simulations of other depositional processes, will further improve process-based classifications and predictions of modern and ancient shoreline systems.

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“…In some cases, the mud drapes may also be of unequal thickness (Martinius and Van den Berg, 2011). Thick-thin successions have been reported from many petroleum reservoirs including the Jurassic Viking Field, North Sea (Reinson et al, 1983), the Jurassic Tross West Field, North Sea (Dreyer et al, 2005), the Cretaceous Sacha Field, Ecuador (Shanmugam et al, 2000), the Miocene Minas Field, Indonesia (Willis and Fitris, 2012), and the Miocene of the Niger Delta ( Fig. Alternatively, some vertically accumulating thick-thin cycles have been attributed to a single tide, with the dominant current (either ebb or flood) depositing the thicker bed, and the subdominant flow depositing the thinner bed (Tessier, 1993;Visser, 1980).…”

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“…Reservoir sandstones deposited in distributary channel fills in tidal deltas have been described from the Jurassic Sognefjord Formation in the Troll West Field in the North Sea (Dreyer et al, 2005), the Miocene Oficina Formation in the Petrocedeño Field in Venezuela , the Jurassic Tilje Formation in the Smørbukk field on the Norwegian shelf (Ichaso and Dalrymple, 2014), the Miocene Sihapas Group in the Minas field, Indonesia (Willis and Fitris, 2012), the Jurassic Plover Formation in Browse Basin, Australian North West Shelf (Tovaglieri and George, 2014), and the Eocene Misoa Formation in the Lagunillas Field in Venezuela (Maguregui and Tyler, 1991). Only fluvial facies updip of the distributary system within reach of the tidal range would be more landward.…”

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“…Willis and Fitris (2012) noted that for the supermature Minas Field, Indonesia, that "despite more than 1600 wells drilled into" a small area, predicting local connectivity remains challenging because of the complex architecture of this tidal delta. Willis and Fitris (2012) noted that for the supermature Minas Field, Indonesia, that "despite more than 1600 wells drilled into" a small area, predicting local connectivity remains challenging because of the complex architecture of this tidal delta.…”

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Recognition and prediction of petroleum reservoirs in the fluvial/tidal transition

Feldman

Demko

2015

Developments in Sedimentology

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Sequence Stratigraphy of Miocene Tide-Influenced Sandstones In the Minas Field, Sumatra, Indonesia

Cited by 11 publications

References 44 publications

Syn‐rift sequence development in a fault‐controlled embayment (Early Permian Irwin River Coal Measures, Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia)

Syn‐rift sequence development in a fault‐controlled embayment (Early Permian Irwin River Coal Measures, Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia)

Prediction of shoreline–shelf depositional process regime guided by palaeotidal modelling

Recognition and prediction of petroleum reservoirs in the fluvial/tidal transition

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