scholarly journals Sequence Stratigraphy of Well DX, Gongola Sub-Basin, Upper Benue Trough, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1855-1860
Author(s):  
F.O. Amiewalan ◽  
E.O. Bamigboye
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
Benue Trough ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Surface System ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
System Tracts ◽  
Maximum Flooding Surface ◽  
Gamma Ray Log

: Biostratigraphic study of Well DX has yielded Cretaceous miospores and dinoflagellates cysts which heightened the recognition of sequence boundaries (SB), Maximum Flooding Surfaces (MFS) and associated Systems Tracts. Five maximum flooding surfaces between 95.6 Ma and 89.0 Ma, four sequence boundaries between 96.4 Ma and 93.0 Ma and threedepositional sequences were identified with varying average thicknesses of sediments interpreted from the gamma ray log and biostratigraphic data. The threedepositional sequences interpreted are -depositional sequence I (96.4 Ma - 95.4 Ma) (8240 ft. - 8120 ft.), depositional sequence II (95.4 Ma - 94.0 Ma) (8120 ft. - 7850 ft.) and depositionalsequence III (94.0 Ma - 93.0 Ma) (7850 ft. - 7550 ft.). All the depositional sequences fall within the third order cycle. The age of the well was attempted based on the presence of some selected marker fossils - Ephedripites spp., Classopollis spp., Spiniferites spp., Cyclonephelium distinctum, Cyclonephelium vannophorum, Subtilisphaera spp., Eucomiidites spp., Triorites africaensis, Odontochitina costata and Droseridites senonicus recovered from the studied intervals and was dated Albian - Santonian. The Sequence stratigraphic interpretations are useful in further deepening the knowledge of thesubsurface geology of the studiedwell in Gongola Sub Basin, Upper Benue Trough of Nigeria.Keywords: Sequence Boundary, Maximum Flooding Surface, System tracts, Depositional sequence

scholarly journals Tectono-Stratigraphic Note: Time calibration of late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Triassic Arabian stratigraphy to orbital-forcing predictions

GeoArabia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moujahed Al-Husseini ◽  
Robley K. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Second Order ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Orbital Forcing ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
Time Calibration ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Order Sequence

The recent publication of GTS 2004 (Gradstein et al., 2004) provides an opportunity to recalibrate in time the late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Traissic Arabian Stratigraphy (GeoArabia Special Publication 3, Edited by Al-Husseini, 2004) as represented by the rock units in subsurface Interior Oman (Osterloff et al., 2004a, b) and the Haushi-Huqf Uplift region (Angiolini et al., 2004) (Figure). Additionally, sequence stratigraphic models of orbital forcing (Matthews and Frohlich, 2002; Immenhauser and Matthews, 2004) provide new insights in regards to the time calibration of depositional sequences: the “Rosetta Stone” approach. The Rosetta Stone approach predicts that the period of a third-order depositional sequence is 2.430 ± 0.405 my (denoted DS3 and here adjusted to increase the fourth-order ‘geological tuning fork’ from 0.404 to 0.405 my based on Laskar et al., 2004). The present calibration is also tied to the orbital-forcing model developed by R.K. Matthews (in Al-Husseini and Matthews, 2005; this issue of GeoArabia) that predicts that a second-order depositional sequence (denoted DS2) consists of six DS3s that were deposited in a period of about 14.58 my (6 x 2.430 my); the DS2 being bounded by two regional second-order sequence boundaries (SB2) corresponding to sea-level maximum regression surfaces.

scholarly journals Facies, sequence stratigraphy and reservoir/seal potential of a Jilh Formation outcrop equivalent (Wadi Sahtan, Triassic, Upper Mahil Member, Sultanate of Oman)

GeoArabia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Obermaier ◽  
Thomas Aigner ◽  
Holger C. Forke
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Oman Mountains ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Reservoir Potential

ABSTRACT The investigated Middle to Upper Triassic Upper Mahil Member, representing a Jilh outcrop equivalent in the Northern Oman Mountains, illustrates the proximal portion of a flat epeiric carbonate ramp. A sedimentological study of well-exposed outcrops in Wadi Sahtan may serve as a reference section for a sequence-stratigraphic framework and detailed facies description of the Upper Mahil Member. It also provides an insight into the seal and reservoir potential of carbonates in a low-accommodation inner ramp setting. Outcrop observations and thin section analyses yielded 14 different lithofacies types ranging from a supratidal marsh to high-energy subtidal shoal environment. Vertical facies stacking patterns show three basic small-scale cycle motifs (fifth-order). While mud-rich backshoal cycles with claystone intercalations and rooted/bioturbated mud-/wackestones illustrate potential baffles and seal units around the center of the Upper Mahil, potential reservoir units occur stratigraphically in the upper part of the formation. There, a few meter-thick trough cross-bedded oolitic-/peloidal-rich grainstone depicts maximum accommodation within backshoal to shoal cycle types below the erosional base-Jurassic unconformity. The investigated outcrop section in Wadi Sahtan was subdivided into nine almost complete third-order sequences. Two to four of these sequences are further stacked into three second-order super-sequences which are well reflected in the gamma-ray pattern. The highest reservoir potential occurs around second-order maximum floodings. Internal seals can be observed at third-order sequence boundaries where shales and muddy carbonates are up to 20 m thick. A regional correlation with subsurface data from Yibal and Lekhwair in Oman shows that the apparent thickness changes in the Upper Mahil (Jilh) are mainly determined by the Late Triassic/Early Jurassic erosional truncation. The occurrence of thick anhydrite units in the subsurface indicates a more proximal setting towards the southwest.

Sequence Stratigraphic Characteristics of Damoguaihe Formation in the North of Wuerxun Sag

2015 ◽  
Vol 733 ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
Bao Yu ◽  
Ling Yu Xu
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
The North ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
System Tracts ◽  
High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Order Sequence ◽  
Drilling Core

Using the theories and methods of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy in rift lacustrine basins, we analyzed seismic, logging and drilling core data of the Damoguaihe Formation in the northern Wuerxun Sag area of the Hailaer Basin in order to understand its sequence stratigraphy characters. We identified third-order sequence boundaries and maximum flooding surfaces and established the sequence stratigraphic framework of the Damoguaihe Formation, which is a set of type sequence. It includes lowstand system tracts (LST), transgressive system tracts (TST) and highstand system tracts (HST).

Sequence stratigraphy of the late Carboniferous Clifton Formation, New Brunswick

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 1289-1304
Author(s):  
Brandon M. Keough ◽  
Olivia A. King ◽  
Matthew R. Stimson ◽  
Page C. Quinton ◽  
Michael C. Rygel
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Sediment Supply ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Marine Strata ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Carbonaceous Shales ◽  
Study Interval ◽  
Maritimes Basin ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Maximum Flooding Surface

The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada contains a rich record of Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Previous studies have focused on rapidly subsiding depocenters in the central part of the basin where Carboniferous successions feature cyclic alternations between terrestrial and marginal marine strata. In contrast, the Pennsylvanian Clifton Formation was deposited on the relatively stable New Brunswick platform and contains almost entirely terrestrial strata. Although early studies of the Clifton Formation noted a cyclic architecture, particularly within Member B, this unit has remained understudied. We provide a sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic framework for the lower 85 m of Member B and interpret our results relative to a broader regional framework. Near the base of the study interval, the highstand systems tract is composed of red floodplain mudrocks; overlying sequence boundaries are composed of calcretes and (or) channels. The transgressive systems tract and maximum flooding surface are represented by coals and aquatic bivalve-bearing mudrocks. Moving upward through the section, the architecture of the highstand systems tract remains largely unchanged while sequence-bounding paleosols become less well developed, the transgressive systems tract becomes thinner and eventually not preserved, and the maximum flooding surface is only occasionally preserved, possibly represented by carbonaceous shales. These changes in cyclic architecture may be attributed to changes in the magnitude of glacioeustatic fluctuations, climate, and (or) the accommodation/sediment supply ratio. The results of this study show that the Clifton Formation represents the terrestrial/proximal endmember for cyclicity in the Maritimes Basin and provide new insight into paleotopography as a possible control on cyclothem architecture.

High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of Silurian Strata in Tazhong Area

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Lun Wei Zhu ◽  
Xue Juan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Tazhong Area ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Comprehensive Study

According to the fundamental principles of high resolution sequence stratigraphy, this paper focused on the application of high resolution sequence stratigraphy to Silurian strata in Tazhong area. Based on the comprehensive study of logging, drilling and seismic information, the high resolution sequence boundaries of Silurian strata and two scales of datum level cycles (long-term and intermediate-term) can be recognized in Tazhong area. Seven chronstratigraphic boundaries can be recognized in Silurian strata, including four sequence boundaries, which were the transformation from datum level falling to datum level rising, and three flooding surfaces, which the transformation from datum level rising to datum level falling. The Silurian strata in Tazhong area can be divided into three third-order sequences which correspond to three long-term datum level cycles, and 11 fourth-order sequences (parasequence sets) relating to 11 intermediate-term datum level cycles. The classification aforementioned can much better solved the corresponding problem between the six lithological sections of Silurian strata and sequence formations, finally establishes the high resolution sequence stratigraphic framework of Silurian strata in Tazhong area.

Sequence stratigraphy of the lacustrine rift basin in the Paleogene system of the Bohai Sea area: Architecture mode, deposition filling pattern, and response to tectonic rifting processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. SF57-SF79
Author(s):  
Changgui Xu ◽  
Lu Huan ◽  
Song Zhangqiang ◽  
Jia Donghui
Keyword(s):  
Bohai Sea ◽  
Rift Basin ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
The Bohai Sea ◽  
Stratigraphic Model ◽  
Architectural Patterns ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Sea Area ◽  
System Tract

The Bohai Sea area is a complex lacustrine rift basin characterized by multistage rifts, polycycle superimpositions, and multiple genetic mechanisms. We recognized three types of sequence boundaries from the Paleogene strata of offshore Bohai, including 2 first-, 3 second-, and 10 third-order sequence boundaries. The third-order wedges, composed of the low-stand system tract (LST), lake expansion system tract (EST), and high-stand system tract (HST), are significant for hydrocarbon exploration. The sequence stratigraphic patterns vary in different periods. We discovered that the LST and EST are mainly developed in the rifting stage, whereas the HST is developed in the subsidence stage. Sequences developed in different depressions present significant variations, but the migration of the depocenter from the margin to the center during basin evolution can still be clearly recognized. Vertically, episodic tectonism plays an important role in controlling the formation of sequence boundaries, sequence structural features, and sequence architectural patterns. However, various rift basin marginal tectonics control the lateral sequence architectures. Because each structure belt is characterized by a unique sequence framework due to the strong influence of basin rifting processes, we establish a corresponding sequence stratigraphic model for the specific tectonic environment using process-based sequence stratigraphic methods.

scholarly journals Coal-bearing strata sequence stratigraphy of Paleogene Meihe Formation, Meihe Basin, NE China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueyue Bai ◽  
Qingtian Lü ◽  
Zhaojun Liu ◽  
Pingchang Sun ◽  
Rong Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Environment ◽  
Seismic Profiles ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Delta Plain ◽  
Accommodation Space ◽  
Geochemical Properties ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
System Tracts

AbstractThe Meihe Basin is an important Paleogene coal-bearing basin located in the Dunhua-Mishan Fault Zone, northeastern China. Based on a comprehensive study of well logs, seismic profiles, cores and rock geochemical properties, the coal distribution, paleoenvironment evolution within a sequence stratigraphic framework and the accumulation model to explain how coal seams developed in small fault basin were discussed in detail. Three-third-order sequences were identified in the Paleogene Meihe Formation of Meihe Basin and the two coal-bearing sequences are the Lower Coal-bearing Member of Sequence I and the Upper Coal-bearing Member of Sequence III. All three types of system tracts are developed in both sequences, i.e., the lowstand systems tract (LST), the transgressive systems tract (TST), and the highstand systems tract (HST). In LST of Sequence I, fan delta plain marsh is the main coal accumulating environment where coal seams are thin, discontinuous and therefore uneconomic for mining, and it is the same with all coal seams developed in Sequence III. While in TST and HST of Sequence I, lake swamp is the main sedimentary environment where coal seams are thick, continuous, widely distributed, and thus economically attractive for mining. In the study area, the nice thick economical coal seams are usually developed in an ideal stable depositional environment where organic matter accommodation space grows at a balanced rate with peat, in other words, free of sediment input or channel migration. The key findings of this study could provide guidance for the exploration of coal seams in the Meihe Basin and other similar basins.

scholarly journals Upper Cenozoic sequences in the southeastern North Sea Basin

1995 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 74-95
Author(s):  
Jan C. Sørensen ◽  
Olaf Michelsen
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Sediment Accumulation ◽  
Accumulation Rates ◽  
The West ◽  
Upper Cenozoic ◽  
Lateral Extent ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Maximum Flooding Surface ◽  
Distinct Maximum

The Upper Cenozoic deposits, which cover the "mid-Miocene unconformity" in the southeastern North Sea Basin are subdivided into thirty-one sequences. Progradation from the east to the west is observed. The lowstand systems tracts appear seismically as prograding wedges. The top lowstand surface is recognized as a toplap surface in areas where high-angle progradation dominates the stratal pattern, indicating the presence of a bypass zone formed during lowstand progradation. The maximum flooding surface is identified on logs as a maximum gamma ray peak, which separates an upward fining from an upward coarsening trend. The two trends represent the transgressive and the highstand systems tracts, respectively. Sequence boundaries are commonly associated with widespread erosion. The presence of both fluvial and submarine erosion is interpreted on the basis of the orientation of incision and the position of erosion relative to the depositional shoreline break of the preceding sequence. In Late Miocene times the Ringkøbing-Fyn High partly separated the southeastern North Sea into two embayments, which were connected by a deep seaway towards the west. Sediment accumulation rates seem to have culminated during periods with decreasing palaeo-temperatures. During relatively cold periods, the sequences were deposited as prograding wedges with a limited lateral extent. Two periods with maximum palaeotemperatures are time-equivalent with the two most distinct maximum flooding surfaces and intervals characterized by low sediment accumulation rates.

scholarly journals Devonian Jauf Formation, Saudi Arabia: Orbital Second-order Depositional Sequence 28

GeoArabia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moujahed Al-Husseini ◽  
Robley K. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
Early Devonian ◽  
Orbital Cycles ◽  
Flooding Event ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Order Sequence ◽  
Reference Section

ABSTRACT The Devonian Jauf Formation (Huj Group) froms part of a regional transgressive-regressive depositional sequence that extends more than 1,500 km across the Arabian Platform from the Al Jawf outcrops in northwest Saudi Arabia, to the subsurface of eastern Saudi Arabia and Oman (Misfar Group). The formation ranges in thickness from 200–335 m in eastern Saudi Arabia to about 300–330 m in northwest Saudi Arabia. It disconformably (?unconformably) overlies the continental to shallow-marine Tawil Formation, and is unconformably overlain by the continental Jubah Formation. The Jauf Formation consists of five members that are apparently conformable; from base-up: Sha’iba Shale, Qasr Limestone, Subbat Shale, Hammamiyat Limestone and Murayr. In the Al-Qalibah reference section, it is divided into 21 informal units. The Early Devonian Emsian Hammamiyat Member represents the main marine flooding event; it consists of Hammamiyat units 1–6 each characterized by a clastic section that is capped by limestone. The Jauf Formation is interpreted as an orbital second-order depositional sequence (denoted DS2 28), which is bounded by two second-order sequence boundaries: SB2 28 = Jauf/Tawil (c. 407.6 Ma) and SB2 27 = Jubah/Jauf (c. 393.0 Ma). The Jauf Formation appears to consist of six third-order depositional sequences (DS3 28.1 to 28.6) that were deposited in the Early Devonian, ?Pragian and Emsian stages The Hammamiyat Member (DS3 28.4) is interpreted to consist of six fourth-order orbital cycles (DS4 28.4.1 to 28.4.6) each deposited in 0.405 million years.

scholarly journals Coal-bearing strata sequence stratigraphy of Paleogene Meihe Formation, Meihe Basin, NE China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueyue Bai ◽  
Qingtian Lü ◽  
Zhaojun Liu ◽  
Pingchang Sun ◽  
Rong Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Environment ◽  
Seismic Profiles ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Delta Plain ◽  
Accommodation Space ◽  
Geochemical Properties ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
System Tracts

Abstract The Meihe Basin is an important Paleogene coal-bearing basin located in the Dunhua-Mishan Fault Zone, northeastern China. Based on a comprehensive study of well logs, seismic profiles, cores and rock geochemical properties, the coal distribution, paleoenvironment evolution within a sequence stratigraphic framework and the accumulation model to explain how coal seams developed in small fault basinsw were discussed in detail. Three third-order sequences were identified in the Paleogene Meihe Formation of Meihe Basin and the two coal-bearing sequences are the Lower Coal-bearing Member of Sequence I and the Upper Coal-bearing Member of Sequence III. All three types of system tracts are developed in both sequences, i.e., the lowstand systems tract (LST), the transgressive systems tract (TST), and the highstand systems tract (HST). In LST of Sequence I, fan delta plain marsh is the main coal accumulating environment where coal seams are thin, discontinuous and therefore uneconomic for mining, and it is the same with all coal seams developed in Sequence III. While in TST and HST of Sequence I, lake swamp is the main sedimentary environment where coal seams are thick, continuous, widely distributed, and thus economically attractive for mining. In the study area, the nice thick economical coal seams are usually developed in an ideal stable depositional environment where organic matter accommodation space grows at a balanced rate with peat, in other words, free of sediment input or channel migration. The key findings of this study could provide guidance for the exploration of coal seams in the Meihe Basin and other similar basins.

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