Tectono sedimentary evolution of active extensional basins pdf

Many basins form as the result of plate tectonic activity through a variety of. Tectonic extension at divergent boundaries where continental rifting is occurring can create a nascent ocean basin leading to either an ocean or the failure of the rift zone. Tectono sedimentary evolution of active extensional basins. Active continental rift zones generate rapidly subsiding basins with significant accumulations of sediments. Continental rift basins are important because they provide records of past changes in climate, sealake level and sedimentwater supply, information on regional tectonic evolution, and can contain vast economic reserves of hydrocarbons gawthorpe and leeder, 2000. Issn 0950091x full text not available from this repository. Examples of active basins of this sort occur in the aegean backarc mckenzie 1978. Reply to comment on tectonosedimentary evolution of.

Increasing knowledge of tectonosedimentary evolution of basin margins characterised by coalescent oblique fault sets that form a continuous zigzag has developed in the last two decades e. Tectonosedimentary evolution of the gulf of suez active extensional basin affected the deposition of the synrift middle miocene langhian. Tectonosedimentary phases of the latest cretaceous and cenozoic compressive evolution of the algarve margin southern portugal fernando c. Tectonosedimentary evolution of active extensional basins article in basin research 123. The cameros basin north of spain article pdf available in international journal of earth sciences 1036. School of environmental sciences, university of east anglia, norwich nr4 7tj, uk. They revealed the paleogeography during six system tracts of the two thirdorder. In extensional settings, like the upper rhine graben, tectonic influence can. Strikeslip basin its configuration and sedimentary facies. Preliminary catalog of the sedimentary basins of the. Two exploration wells were drilled in the area me1 and wkf1 wells. Figure one shows a growth fault with a concave upward fault plane that has high updip angle and. Sedimentary deposits in block 5, offshore tanzania basin have been imaged using twodimensional 2d seismic data.

Six interpreted tectonosedimentary models and lithofacies distribution maps are based mainly on facies interpretation and log data from ten wells. In particular, the processes of fault propagation, growth, linkage and death are major tectonic. Threedimensional modeling of facies architecture and. Pdf tectonosedimentary development of an extensional basin. Results show that during early to late jurassic, block 5 was affected by the breakup of. Introduction southwestern turkey is a place of the active continental extension and thus the. Tectonosedimentary evolution of the pliopleistocene corinth rift, greece. Late miocenepleistocene tectonosedimentary evolution and. Sedimentary models for extensional tiltblockhalfgraben. Tectonosedimentary evolution of a rift system controlled by permian postorogenic extension and metamorphic core complex formation bidarray basin and ursuya dome, western pyrenees.

Characterisation of the tectonosedimentary evolution of a geothermal reservoir implications for exploitation southern permian basin, ne germany h. In order to overcome this a series of 3d models have been generated which allow 3d infill patterns to be examined in detail. The basin is surrounded by the bolkar mountains of tauride platform in the south, the nigde massif of central anatolian crystalline complex to the north, and the ecemis fault zone and aladag mountains in the east. In both cases, the synrift sedimentary record can be studied in 3d allowing to evolutionary steps of. The advantages of analysing active structures is that many of the controls on their development can be constrained independently and slip rates and recurrence intervals can be determined. Gupta, 1996, geometry and scaling relations of a population of very small riftrelated. One or more tectonosedimentary episodes defining single. Tectonosedimentary analysis is an important topic in basin analysis pascucci et al. Tectonostratigraphic evolution of an inverted extensional. Tectonosedimentary evolution of lower to middle miocene halfgraben basins related to an extensional detachment fault western crete, greece. Tectonosedimentary and hydrocarbon potential analysis of. Request pdf tectonosedimentary evolution of active extensional basins we present conceptual models for the tectonosedimentary evolution of rift basins. The latest cretaceous and cenozoic tectonosedimentary evolution of the central and eastern. Tectonosedimentary evolution of a rift system controlled.

Previous studies of normal faulting and their control on sedimentation have largely focussed on geometrical infill patterns from a two dimensional perspective. Robert leslie gawthorpe personal information education and. Sedimentary basins form primarily in convergent, divergent and transform settings. Tectonosedimentary evolution of northern part of cambay. Thermochronology of the highpressure metamorphic rocks on crete, greece. Projected on it, the graben system effect on jurassic succession in merjan area which has been recognized using 3d seismic data the tectono stratigraphic framework which led to confusion between reef buildup and architecture of sedimentary fill in extensional subbasin will be interpreted here using highresolution 3d seismic data and as.

Tectono sedimentary evolution of the pliopleistocene corinth rift, greece, basin research, doi. Gawthorpe, rl and leeder, mr 2000 tectono sedimentary evolution of active extensional basins. New insights into the onset and evolution of the central. Active extensional basins are important since their sedimentary in. Tectonosedimentary phases of the latest cretaceous and. Six interpreted tectono sedimentary models and lithofacies distribution maps are based mainly on facies interpretation and log data from ten wells.

Basin architecture depends upon a complex interaction between the. Tectonosedimentary processes at hyperextended rifted. Despite these two examples show a different sedimentary evolution, they exemplify how detachment systems can control accommodation space and sedimentary architecture. This method has proved to be a reliable tool for the structurally. Tectonosedimentary evolution of active extensional basins growth through clustering of earthquakes on particular parts of the fault zone machette et al. Paleogene tectonosedimentary evolution of the alicante.

Alluvial sedimentation and tectonostratigraphic evolution. The study method is a combination of the sedimentary models for extensional basins gawthorpe et al. We present conceptual models for the tectonosedimentary evolution of rift basins. Tectonosedimentary evolution of active extensional basins. International audiencestudy of the tectonically active laquila basin offers new insights into both the creation of the extensional intermontane basins of the central apennines of italy and their tectonosedimentary evolution through time. Tectonosedimentary evolution of northern part of cambay basin tusar ranjan sahoo1 and mainak choudhuri2. Several studies show a close relationship between sedimentary pattern and larger structural elements of the earth continents are formed by different tectonic processess and related magmatism. Tectono stratigraphic evolution of an inverted extensional basin. Peat accumulation or soil development are accentuated up the hanging wall dip. The paleogene multiphase tectonosedimentary evolution of the. Tectonosedimentary evolution of the northern upper rhine graben.

The plate tectonic revolution of the 1960s provided the framework for detailed models on the structure of orogens and. Tectonosedimentary evolution of active extensional basins by gawthorpe and leeder basin research 2000 12, 195218 is a pretty big deal. The synrift unconformity is generated prior to and during rifting and so underlies synrift strata. Late miocenepleistocene tectonosedimentary evolution and subsidence history of the central betic cordillera spain. Please redirect your searches to the new ads modern form or the classic form.

The mesozoic evolution is characterized by the rifting of the southiberian margin from the tethys ocean 2. Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of l ake o hrid m. Growth faults are syndepositional or synsedimentary extensional faults that initiate and evolve at the margins of continental plates. Tectonosedimentary evolution of active extensional. Paleotectonic, neotectonic, eocene transgressive deposits, lycian nappes 1.

Tectonosedimentary development of an extensional basin. The fact that time interval proposed for the formation of uluk. Sedimentary and tectonic evolution of l ake o hrid m acedonia a lbania lindhorst, k krastel, s reicherter, k stipp, m wagner, b schwenk, t. Tectonosedimentary evolution of the bowland basin, n. A number of predictive tectonosedimentary facies models are. This study uses a series of synthetic 3d experiments to highlight the effect of changing fault displacement. We present conceptual models for the tectono sedimentary evolution of rift basins. A new tectono sedimentary framework of the jurassic. Tectono sedimentary evolution of the gulf of suez active extensional basin affected the deposition of the synrift middle miocene langhian kareem formation. Tectono sedimentary analysis is an important topic in basin analysis pascucci et al.

This extensional tectonics allowed the structuring of the southiberian margin into two tectonopalaeogeographic domains the prebetic and the subbetic separated by another domain having intermediate sedimentary characteristics the. Synthetic traces calculated from sonic and density logs of the well me1. This model has served as a basic template for the study of carbonate facies in extensional basins. Comment on tectonosedimentary evolution of lower to middle miocene halfgraben basins related to an extensional detachment fault western crete, greece by m.

Structural style and tectonic evolution of a polyphase. Evolution of sedimentary basins is spatially related to continental evolution and global tectonic processes. The bohai bay basin is the second largest oilproducing basin in. Tectonosedimentary evolution of the offshore hydrocarbon.

Extension occurred in two distinct episodes, marked by basinwide debris flow and sedimentary slideslump deposits. They extend parallel to passive margins that have high sediment supply. Study of three dimension seismic data of merjan survey, central iraq has showed that the jurassic cretaceous succession is affected by faulting system. Convergent boundaries create foreland basins through tectonic compression of oceanic and continental crust during lithospheric flexure. Characterisation of the tectonosedimentary evolution of a. Schandelmeier 2 geoforschungszentrum potsdam gfz, section geothermics, telegrafenberg, d. Arc collisional processes both the junggar and yemaquan blocks are underlain by the juvenile arc crust and lack precambrian basement rocks table s4.

Basin architecture depends upon a complex interaction. Seven major normal faults were identified and mapped. Sourcetosink analysis in an active extensional setting. Tectonics of sedimentary basins article pdf available in geological society of america bulletin 10011. Tectonosedimentary evolution of an extensional basin. Tectonosedimentary evolution of the gulf of suez active extensional basin affected the deposition of the synrift middle miocene langhian kareem formation.

In the eocene, an early synrift volcanic phase was active lippolt et al. The seismic data and well data reveal four tectonic units representing different tectonic events in relation to structural styles, sedimentation and hydrocarbon potential evolved in block 5. Postvariscan extensional basins are characterized in the pyrenees by a halfgraben morphology bixel and lucas. Gawthorpe, rl and leeder, mr 2000 tectonosedimentary evolution of active extensional basins. Mr 2000 tectonosedimentary evolution of active extensional basins. Gawthorpe basin and stratigraphic studies group, department of earth sciences, university of manchester, manchester m 9 pl, uk e. Comment on tectono sedimentary evolution of lower to middle miocene halfgraben basins related to an extensional detachment fault western crete, greece by m. Investigating the complex interplay between tectonics and sedimentation is a key endeavor in modern earth science. Their fault plane dips mostly toward the basin and has longterm continuous displacement. Many of the worlds leading researchers in this field have been brought together in this volume to provide concise overviews of the current state of the subject.