scholarly journals Permian

1982 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Fritz Lyngsie Jacobsen ◽  
Jørgen Gutzon Larsen

In North-West Europe two mega-basins began their development during Late Carboniferous to Early Permian: The South Permian Basin stretching from eastern England into Poland , and the North Permian Basin reaching from Scotland into Denmark. These two basins were separated by the Mid North Sea High and the Ringkøbing-Fyn High which came into existence early in Permian. The initial phase of subsidence was accompanied by extensive subaerial volcanism. This was followed by a period of oxidation and erosion under desert conditions and deposition of red beds and sabkha sediments in the two Permian basins (fig. 19). These rocks are included in the Rotliegendes Group as originally established by Werner (1786). Continuous subsidence and transgression of the sea, but with a restricted connection to the ocean, lead to the formation of the evaporites of the Zechstein Group.

2002 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
Susanne Frederiksen

A new two-dimensional dynamic lithosphere model is used to simulate the Late Palaeozoic to end Danian evolution of the Norwegian-Danish Basin and the post Permian evolution of the Central North Sea including the Central Graben. The transient heat equation and the equations of motion are solved using the finite element method. The lithosphere deforms by brittle and ductile processes through an elasto-visco-plastic rheology depending on temperature, pressure, strain-rate and material parameters. Strain softening dependent on accumulated strain is incorporated. Deposition, erosion and compaction of sediments are simulated. Results show that it is possible to satisfy observations of crustal structure, sediment thickness and surface heat flow for both basins taking all major tectonic and thermal events into consideration. The evolution of the Norwegian-Danish Basin is modelled using a Late Carboniferous – Early Permian thermal event, main rift phase in Early Permian and a minor extensional phase in Triassic. For the Central North Sea two thermal and three tectonic events are simulated: Late Carboniferous – Early Permian and Middle Jurassic thermal events, Early Triassic and Late Jurassic extension, and Late Cretaceous compression. Results show that strain softening may lead to strain localization during extension and therefore may explain observations of upper mantle dipping reflectors in the North Sea. A pure shear dominated extensional regime may change into a simple shear system.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Fu ◽  
Xinghe Yu ◽  
Marc Jolivet ◽  
Shunli Li ◽  
Zixiao Peng ◽  
...  

<p>Developed on the North China Craton, the intra-cratonic Ordos basin contains a complete Paleozoic to Cenozoic sediment record allowing long-term paleo-environmental and climate change investigation. During the Carboniferous-the early Permian period, convergence between the North China block and the paleo-Yangtze plate to the south lead to a general marine regression characterised by a series of second-order transgression/regression cycles diachronous along the eastern margin of the Ordos. However, the detailed mechanisms that induced these cycles, as well as the associated paleoecological changes, are still unknown. In this study, we integrated the description of numerous core samples with electric-log data and 2-D seismic data to reconstruct the sediment facies associations across the first-order regression from the Carboniferous tidal flat depositional system to the early Permian prograding fluvial delta system. δ<sup>18</sup>O, δ<sup>13</sup>C and clay content (w(Illite + Kaolinite)/w(smectite) ratio) stratigraphic variations were then used to reconstruct the paleo-sea level from the late Carboniferous to the early Permian. We conclude that the direction of second-order transgression/regression mainly stroke to the east during the late Carboniferous and switched clockwise towards the north during the early Permian. We suggest that the variability of the second-order cycles, diachronous in space and time was mainly linked to local variations in sediment supply and regional uplift.  Using detrital zircon U-Pb data, major and trace elements content and heavy minerals assemblages (HMA), we estimated the sediment provenance area. The sediment volumes deposited in the basin through time were obtained using 3Dseismic data. During the Carboniferous, the coarse-grained sediments deposited in the eastern Ordos were derived from the uplifting Helan Mountain. By the early Permian, the detrital material became multi-sourced issuing from both the Yinshan range to the north and the Qinling range to the south. During the first stage, regression was controlled by regional uplift, while the sediment supply controlled the second stage. Indeed, based on sediment dispersal volume calculation, we can infer that the sediment supply during the early Permian was more extensive than during the Late Carboniferous – early Permian. We correlate this observation to a more humid climate during the early Permian: multi- paleoecological indexes, including the sporopollenin content and microsomal type assemblage, suggest that glaciation prevailed during the Late Carboniferous – early Permian shallow-marine stage. In contrast, the early Permian alluvial and deltaic series were deposited under a warmer, interglacial climate (Sakmarian). Finally, the typical interglacial coal accumulation pattern occurs earlier than the Pennsylvanian–Permian transition it characterises around the world (Artinskian).</p>


Author(s):  
A., C. Prasetyo

Overpressure existence represents a geological hazard; therefore, an accurate pore pressure prediction is critical for well planning and drilling procedures, etc. Overpressure is a geological phenomenon usually generated by two mechanisms, loading (disequilibrium compaction) and unloading mechanisms (diagenesis and hydrocarbon generation) and they are all geological processes. This research was conducted based on analytical and descriptive methods integrated with well data including wireline log, laboratory test and well test data. This research was conducted based on quantitative estimate of pore pressures using the Eaton Method. The stages are determining shale intervals with GR logs, calculating vertical stress/overburden stress values, determining normal compaction trends, making cross plots of sonic logs against density logs, calculating geothermal gradients, analyzing hydrocarbon maturity, and calculating sedimentation rates with burial history. The research conducted an analysis method on the distribution of clay mineral composition to determine depositional environment and its relationship to overpressure. The wells include GAP-01, GAP-02, GAP-03, and GAP-04 which has an overpressure zone range at depth 8501-10988 ft. The pressure value within the 4 wells has a range between 4358-7451 Psi. Overpressure mechanism in the GAP field is caused by non-loading mechanism (clay mineral diagenesis and hydrocarbon maturation). Overpressure distribution is controlled by its stratigraphy. Therefore, it is possible overpressure is spread quite broadly, especially in the low morphology of the “GAP” Field. This relates to the delta depositional environment with thick shale. Based on clay minerals distribution, the northern part (GAP 02 & 03) has more clay mineral content compared to the south and this can be interpreted increasingly towards sea (low energy regime) and facies turned into pro-delta. Overpressure might be found shallower in the north than the south due to higher clay mineral content present to the north.


1987 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 182-182
Author(s):  
Reynold Higgins

A recent discovery on the island of Aegina by Professor H. Walter (University of Salzburg) throws a new light on the origins of the so-called Aegina Treasure in the British Museum.In 1982 the Austrians were excavating the Bronze Age settlement on Cape Kolonna, to the north-west of Aegina town. Immediately to the east of the ruined Temple of Apollo, and close to the South Gate of the prehistoric Lower Town, they found an unrobbed shaft grave containing the burial of a warrior. The gravegoods (now exhibited in the splendid new Museum on the Kolonna site) included a bronze sword with a gold and ivory hilt, three bronze daggers, one with gold fittings, a bronze spear-head, arrowheads of obsidian, boar's tusks from a helmet, and fragments of a gold diadem (plate Va). The grave also contained Middle Minoan, Middle Cycladic, and Middle Helladic (Mattpainted) pottery. The pottery and the location of the grave in association with the ‘Ninth City’ combine to give a date for the burial of about 1700 BC; and the richness of the grave-goods would suggest that the dead man was a king.


Clay Minerals ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Seemann

AbstractThe Southern Permian Basin of the North Sea represents an elongate E-W oriented depo-centre along the northern margin of the Variscan Mountains. During Rotliegend times, three roughly parallel facies belts of a Permian desert developed, these following the outline of the Variscan Mountains. These belts were, from south to north, the wadi facies, the dune and interdune facies, and the sabkha and desert lake facies. The bulk of the gas reservoirs of the Rotliegend occur in the aeolian dune sands. Their recognition, and the study of their geometry, is therefore important in hydrocarbon exploration. Equally important is the understanding of diagenesis, particularly of the diageneticaily-formed clay minerals, because they have an important influence on the reservoir quality of these sands. Clay minerals were introduced to the aeolian sands during or shortly after their deposition in the form of air-borne dust, which later formed thin clay films around the grains. During burial diagenesis, these clay films may have acted as crystallization nuclei for new clay minerals or for the transformation of existing ones. Depending on their crystallographic habit, the clay minerals can seriously affect the effective porosity and permeability of the sands.


1954 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 267-291
Author(s):  
Elizabeth B. Wace

The Cyclopean Terrace Building lies to the north-west of the Lion Gate on the northern end of the Panagia Ridge and faces almost due west across the valley of the Kephissos and modern main road from Corinth to Argos. It lies just below the 200 m. contour line, and one terrace below the houses excavated in 1950–51 by Dr. Papadimitriou and Mr. Petsas to the east at the same end of the ridge. The area contains a complex of buildings, both successive and contemporary, and in view of the discovery of structures both to the south-west and, by the Greek Archaeological Service, to the north-east it is likely that this whole slope was covered by a portion of the outer town of Mycenae. This report will deal only with the structure to which the name Cyclopean Terrace Building was originally given, the so-called ‘North Megaron’, supported by the heavy main terrace wall.The excavation of this structure was begun in 1923. The main terrace wall was cleared and two L.H. IIIC burials discovered in the top of the fill in the south room. In 1950 it was decided to attempt to clear this building entirely in an endeavour to find out its date and purpose. The clearing was not, however, substantially completed until the close of the 1953 excavation season, and this report presents the available evidence for the date as determined by the pottery found beneath the building; the purpose is still a matter for study, though various tentative conclusions can be put forward.


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Ribeiro Passos ◽  
Liovando Marciano da Costa ◽  
Igor Rodrigues de Assis ◽  
Danilo Andrade Santos ◽  
Hugo Alberto Ruiz ◽  
...  

AbstractThe efficient use of water is increasingly important and proper soil management, within the specificities of each region of the country, allows achieving greater efficiency. The South and Caparaó regions of Espírito Santo, Brazil are characterized by relief of ‘hill seas’ with differences in the degree of pasture degradation due to sun exposure. The objective of this study was to evaluate the least limiting water range in Udox soil under degraded pastures with two faces of exposure to the sun and three pedoenvironments. In each pedoenvironment, namely Alegre, Celina, and Café, two areas were selected, one with exposure on the North/West face and the other on the South/East face. In each of these areas, undisturbed soil samples were collected at 0-10 cm depth to determine the least limiting water range. The exposed face of the pasture that received the highest solar incidence (North/West) presented the lowest values in least limiting water range. The least limiting water range proved to be a physical quality indicator for Udox soil under degraded pastures.


1920 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-243
Author(s):  
J. Reid Moir

When visiting Mundesley, in Norfolk, in September, 1916, the present author found upon the shore, in close proximity to an exposure of clay which he now considers to be referable to the Cromer Forest Bed Series, a very finely-made and large flint flake, of human manufacture. This discovery induced him to again visit Mundesley, and during this year (1919) close upon three weeks have been spent in an examination of the stretch of cliffs and shore lying between Trimingham, to the north-west of Mundesley, and Bacton, which lies to the south-east.The author's researches have been greatly helped by the co-operation of three friends, Professor A. S. Barnes, Mr. Walter B. Nichols, and the Hon. Robert Gathorne-Hardy, who accompanied him to Mundesley, and to whom he offers his warmest thanks. He would, however, wish to make it clear that these gentlemen are in no way responsible for the statements made in this paper. For these the author is solely responsible.


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