19Pre-salt reservoir systems encountered offshore Brazil and Angola that consist of porous continental 20 carbonates are difficult to access because of the limited core material that is under concession. 21 Therefore, it is important to study comparable continental carbonate analogues, like travertines and 22 lacustrine carbonates, that possess similar porosity and permeability characteristics. The Budakalász 23Pleistocene travertines (Buda Hills, Hungary) have been studied from a sedimentological, geochemical 24 and reservoir point of view in order to understand their formation, petrophysical properties and 3D 25 reservoir architecture. 26The three-dimensional geobody architecture of the Budakalász travertines illustrates the potential 27 complexity of kilometre scale continental carbonate systems. Heterogeneous smooth sloping travertine 28 lobes consisting of terrace slope, smooth slope and reed facies, are covered by a lime mudstone 29 dominated, gastropod-and charophyte-rich marsh-pool facies. The observed facies represent a change 30 from a subaerial travertine to a palustrine to lacustrine system, reflecting the ceasing of the system due 31 to tectonic uplift. The dominant paleo-flow direction of the sloping lobes was towards the Danube 32 depression, with several subordinate flow systems identified. 33The Sr-C-O isotope geochemical signatures reflect travertine precipitation at ambient to superambient 34 temperatures from meteoric derived fluids with a mixed CO2 origin of the marine carbonate fluid 35 source rocks and an atmospheric or soil-derived component. Although the uniform signatures of the 36 stable oxygen and carbon isotopes, in addition to petrographic observations suggest partial diagenetic 37 isotopic resetting, the primary geospatial isotope trends seem to have been preserved. 38 2 A reservoir-oriented facies evaluation in the three-dimensional geobody frame of the Budakalász 39 carbonates based on porosity and permeability core plug analyses reveals their heterogeneous nature. 40Terrace, smooth slope and marsh-pool facies have considerable porosities of 5-15%, while the 41 porosity of the reed facies may reach up to 27%. Permeability of all facies is strongly anisotropic, 42 mainly controlled by a better connectivity along layer-parallel primary pores. 43The reconstruction of the 3D geobody architecture of the Budakalász lobe complex coupled to its 44 geochemical and petrophysical properties provides a unique dataset that so far was lacking. 45 46