Volcanic and Hydrothermal Influences on Middle Eocene Lacustrine Sedimentary Deposits, Republic Basin, Northern Washington, USA

2009 ◽  
pp. 199-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Gaylord ◽  
S. M. Price ◽  
J. D. Suydam
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Sedimentary Deposits

A Middle–Late Eocene vertebrate fauna (marine fish and mammals) from southwestern Morocco; preliminary report: age and palaeobiogeographical implications

2010 ◽  
Vol 147 (6) ◽  
pp. 860-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
SYLVAIN ADNET ◽  
HENRI CAPPETTA ◽  
RODOLPHE TABUCE
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Evolutionary Trend ◽  
Western Sahara ◽  
Sedimentary Deposits ◽  
Marine Deposits ◽  
Bony Fishes ◽  
The City

AbstractRecent field work in the southern Moroccan Sahara (‘Western Sahara’), south of the city of ad-Dakhla, has led to the discovery of several new fossiliferous sites with fossil vertebrates in sedimentary deposits previously reported for the Mio-Pliocene. The sedimentology and geological setting of the studied area are briefly reported here, and at least three units have been identified in successive stratigraphical sequences according to their fossil content. The first preliminary list of vertebrate associations is reported and consists mainly of isolated teeth belonging to selachian and bony fishes, a proboscidean tooth currently assigned to ?Numidotherium sp. and many remains of archaeocete whales (Basilosauridae). At least 48 species of selachians are presently identified; many of them are new and others are recorded in the late Middle Eocene (Bartonian) and Late Eocene (Priabonian) of Wadi Al-Hitan (Egypt) or Wadi Esh-Shallala Formation (Jordan) as in other African localities (e.g. Otodus cf. sokolowi, ‘Cretolamna’ twiggsensis, Xiphodolamia serrata, Misrichthys stromeri, Hemipristis curvatus, Galeocerdo cf. eaglesomi, Propristis schweinfurthi), probably indicating a Late Eocene age for unit 2 of the bedrock successions. The evolutionary trend noticeable on the proboscidean tooth is in agreement with such an assumption, by comparison with the close relative species known from the Eocene of Egypt, Libya and Algeria. Indeed, the faunal associations from the Dakhla area clearly demonstrate the erroneous age of these deposits, previously thought to be Mio-Pliocene. It suggests a correlation in age (late Middle Eocene–Late Eocene) and a similar environment with the famous marine deposits from Egypt and Jordan. It opens new opportunities to understand the biogeography and the surprising similarity of landscape between West and Northeast Africa during the Bartonian–Priabonian period.

scholarly journals Map of fossil resins of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
U. Z. Naumenko ◽  
V. M. Matsui
Keyword(s):  
Marine Environment ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Ukrainian Shield ◽  
Sedimentary Deposits ◽  
Coastal Marine ◽  
Geological Past ◽  
Fossil Resins

Finding out the conditions of the geological past under which tar secretions were fossilised and primary bio-sedimentary deposits of protoamber were accumulated and amber-succinite placers formed in the marine environment is an important link in scientific research. Insufficient study of amber-succinite as an organic formation, which has gone through a difficult path of transition from wildlife to minerals, leads to irrational use and search for such valuable raw materials and its extraction is much less beneficial than planned. The authors have carried out a comprehensive systematization of accumulated knowledge on amber-succinite and other mineral types of mineral resins in Ukraine and the entire Baltic-Dnipro amber province. The article discusses the creation of a new map of mineral fossil resins in Ukraine. In addition to the known amber-bearing zones, deposits and occurrences of amber, the map carriespaleogeological and predicted loads, is closely related to the formation of both secondary placers of amber-succinite and primary biogenic-sedimentary deposits – resin bodies, transitional composition in the first half of the Middle Eocene (Buchakian time). In order to develop a reasonable forecast of the deposits, the authors identified the root source of amber-succinite placers, which is represented by biogenic-sedimentary deposits of resin bodies.  These deposits were formed in the Lower Middle Eocene during the Buchakian time on land of the Ukrainian Shield, most often within swampy accumulative depressions associated with ancient faults and structural tectonic traps. The conditions of the geological past, under which tar secretions were fossilized and primary biogenic-sedimentary deposits of the protoamber were accumulated, as well as the formation of amber-succinite placers, the first intermediate collectors in the coastal-marine, liman delta and deep-water parts of the paleoshelf, have been clarified. The work carried out by the authors resulted in predicted conclusions about the possibility of finding new areas promising for the discovery of industrial deposits of the most valuable type of fossil resins – amber succinite.

The Grobogan Mud Volcano Complex: An Identification to Reveal the Opportunity of Hydrocarbon Exploration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Jatu
Keyword(s):  
Water Analysis ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Hydrocarbon Exploration ◽  
System Model ◽  
Mud Volcano ◽  
Hydrocarbon Potential ◽  
Mud Volcanoes ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Surface Data

Mud volcanoes in Grobogan are referred as the Grobogan Mud Volcanoes Complex in Central Java where there is evidence of oil seepages. This comprehensive research is to determine the characteristics and hydrocarbon potential of the mud volcanoes in the Central Java region as a new opportunity for hydrocarbon exploration. The Grobogan Mud Volcano Complex consists of eight mud volcanoes that have its characteristics based on the study used the geological surface data and seismic literature as supporting data on eight mud volcanoes. The determination of geological surface characteristics is based on geomorphological analysis, laboratory analysis such as petrography, natural gas geochemistry, water analysis, mud geochemical analysis and biostratigraphy. Surface data and subsurface data are correlated, interpreted, and validated to make mud volcano system model. The purpose of making the mud volcanoes system model is to identify the hydrocarbon potential in Grobogan. This research proved that each of the Grobogan Mud Volcanoes has different morphological forms. Grobogan Mud Volcanoes materials are including muds, rock fragments, gas, and water content with different elemental values. Based on this research result, there are four mud volcano systems models in Central Java, they are Bledug Kuwu, Maesan, Cungkrik, and Crewek type. The source of the mud is from Ngimbang and Tawun Formation (Middle Eocene to Early Miocene) from biostratigraphy data and it been correlated with seismic data. Grobogan Mud Volcanoes have potential hydrocarbons with type III kerogen of organic matter (gas) and immature to early mature level based on TOC vs HI cross plot. The main product are thermogenic gas and some oil in relatively small quantities. Water analysis shows that it has mature sodium chloride water. This analysis also shows the location was formed within formations that are deposited in a marine environment with high salinity. Research of mud volcanos is rarely done in general. However, this comprehensive research shows the mud volcano has promising hydrocarbon potential and is a new perspective on hydrocarbon exploration.

The Chingandzha flora of the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic belt

Palaeobotany ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 13-179
Author(s):  
L. B. Golovneva
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Volcanic Belt ◽  
Flowering Plants ◽  
Sedimentary Deposits ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Magadan Region ◽  
Chukotka Volcanic Belt ◽  
Systematic Composition ◽  
Coastal Lowlands

The Chingandzha flora comes from the volcanic-sedimentary deposits of the Chingandzha Formation (the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic belt, North-East of Russia). The main localities of the Chingandzha flora are situated in the Omsukchan district of the Magadan Region: on the Tap River (basin of the middle course of the Viliga River), on the Kananyga River, near the mouth of the Rond Creek, and in the middle reaches of the Chingandzha River (basin of the Tumany River). The Chingandzha flora includes 23 genera and 33 species. Two new species (Taxodium viligense Golovn. and Cupressinocladus shelikhovii Golovn.) are described, and two new combinations (Arctopteris ochotica (Samyl.) Golovn. and Dalembia kryshtofovichii (Samyl.) Golovn.) are created. The Chingandzha flora consists of liverworts, horsetails, ferns, seed ferns, ginkgoaleans, conifers, and angiosperms. The main genera are Arctop teris, Osmunda, Coniopteris, Cladophlebis, Ginkgo, Sagenoptepis, Sequoia, Taxodium, Metasequoia, Cupressinocladus, Protophyllocladus, Pseudoprotophyllum, Trochodendroides, Dalembia, Menispermites, Araliaephyllum, Quereuxia. The Chingandzha flora is distinct from other floras of the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic belt (OCVB) in predominance of flowering plants and in absence of the Early Cretaceous relicts such as Podozamites, Phoenicopsis and cycadophytes. According to its systematic composition and palaeoecological features, the Chingandzha flora is similar to the Coniacian Kaivayam and Tylpegyrgynay floras of the North-East of Russia, which were distributed at coastal lowlands east of the mountain ridges of the OCVB. Therefore, the age of the Chingandzha flora is determined as the Coniacian. This flora is assigned to the Kaivayam phase of the flora evolution and to the Anadyr Province of the Siberian-Canadian floristic realm. The Chingandzha flora is correlated with the Coniacian Aleeky flora from the Viliga-Tumany interfluve area and with other Coniacian floras of the OCVB: the Chaun flora of the Central Chukotka, the Kholchan flora of the Magadan Region and the Ul’ya flora of the Ul’ya Depression.

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