This study examines the turbidite dynamics and hydrocarbon reservoir formation in Ghana’s Tano Basin, which is located in coastal West Africa. Through an exploration of geological processes spanning millions of years...This study examines the turbidite dynamics and hydrocarbon reservoir formation in Ghana’s Tano Basin, which is located in coastal West Africa. Through an exploration of geological processes spanning millions of years, we uncover key factors shaping hydrocarbon accumulation, including source rock richness, temperature, pressure, and geological structures. The research offers valuable insights applicable to exploration, management, and sustainable resource exploitation in coastal West Africa. It facilitates the identification of exploration targets with higher hydrocarbon potential, enables the anticipation of reservoir potential within the Tano Basin, and assists in tailoring exploration and management strategies to specific geological conditions of the Tano Basin. Analysis of fluvial channels sheds light on their impact on landscape formation and hydrocarbon exploration. The investigation into turbidite systems unveils intricate interactions involving tectonics, sea-level fluctuations, and sedimentation patterns, influencing the development of reservoirs. An understanding of sediment transport and depositional settings is essential for efficient reservoir management. Geomorphological features, such as channels, submarine canyons, and distinct channel types, are essential in this situation. A detailed examination of turbidite channel structures, encompassing canyons, channel complexes, convex channels, and U-shaped channels, provides valuable insights and aids in identifying exploration targets like basal lag, channel levees, and lobes. These findings underscore the enduring significance of turbidite systems as conduits for sediment transport, contributing to enhanced reservoir management and efficient hydrocarbon production. The study also highlights how important it is to examine the configuration of sedimentary layers, stacking patterns, and angular laminated facies to identify turbidites, understand reservoir distribution, and improve well design. The dynamic nature of turbidite systems, influenced by basin 展开更多
In a recent contribution G. Shanmugam (2018) discusses and neglects the importance of hyperpycnal flows and hyperpycnites for the understanding of some sediment gravity flow deposits. For him, the hyperpycnal flow par...In a recent contribution G. Shanmugam (2018) discusses and neglects the importance of hyperpycnal flows and hyperpycnites for the understanding of some sediment gravity flow deposits. For him, the hyperpycnal flow paradigm is strictly based on experimental and theoretical concepts, without the supporting empirical data from modern depositional systems. In this discussion I will demonstrate that G. Shanmugam overlooks growing evidences that support the importance of hyperpycnal flows in the accumulation of a huge volume of fossil clastic sediments. Sustained hyperpycnal flows also provide a rational explanation for the origin of well sorted fine-grained massive sandstones with floating clasts, a deposit often wrongly related to sandy debris flows.展开更多
浊流和碎屑流等粗粒沉积是深海油气和天然气水合物良好的储层,它的发现和识别对于深海油气和天然气水合物的勘探具有重要意义。在南海北部陆坡神狐海域水深1805 m海底采集的长5.5 m柱状沉积物由2层富有孔虫层和2层深灰色泥质粉砂层相间...浊流和碎屑流等粗粒沉积是深海油气和天然气水合物良好的储层,它的发现和识别对于深海油气和天然气水合物的勘探具有重要意义。在南海北部陆坡神狐海域水深1805 m海底采集的长5.5 m柱状沉积物由2层富有孔虫层和2层深灰色泥质粉砂层相间组成,其中深灰色泥质粉砂层(A_1和A3_)主要为黏土矿物、石英和长石组成,粒径中值在6~15μm之间,Ti/Al、K/Al和Fe/Al比值类似于南海神狐海域表层半深海沉积特征,而富有孔虫砂层(A_2和A_4)的粒度具有向上递减的特征,形成由粗到细的正粒序构造,粒径中值高,Ti/Al、K/Al和Fe/Al比值较高,与A_1和A_3灰色泥质粉砂层相比,含有更多的粗粒陆源物,推测可能是浊流经底流改造的碎屑流沉积。浮游有孔虫^(14)C定年表明下部的A_4层可能晚于42.46~43.53 ka B P,A_2层晚于15.1~15.3ka B P。浊流从浅海搬运来的大量有孔虫在陆坡经碎屑流改造形成富集Ca CO_3的有孔虫富集层。展开更多
The Lower Triassic Xikou Formation in southwestern Fujian, China is a set of complex deep water sediments which includes turbidites, sandy contourites and isolated olistoliths. Five facies and seven subfacies are reco...The Lower Triassic Xikou Formation in southwestern Fujian, China is a set of complex deep water sediments which includes turbidites, sandy contourites and isolated olistoliths. Five facies and seven subfacies are recognized in the deep water turbidites, which are considered to belong to five facies associations of upper, middle and lower fans, respectively. The sandy contourites, which occur within turbidites as isolated thin layers with structures of traction current, are formed by reworking turbidites. They occur in discrete units, not as a part of a vertical sequence of structures, such as Bouma sequence. Paleocurrent directions derived from sandy contourites are perpendicular to or at a large angle of those derived from turbidites. In some areas, within the Formation there exist large oolitic limestone blocks slided from shallow sea. The temporal spatial distribution of three types of sediments mentioned above and the related evidences could indicate that a passive continental margin from shallow sea to bathyal abyssal region, dipping toward southeast, once occurred in study area during the early Triassic. The early Triassic represents a period of sea level uprising. The uprising of sea level and the development of isolated olistoliths probably imply gradual shrinking of an ocean basin at that time.展开更多
The basement of the Philippine Mobile Belt (PMB) is mainly composed of ophiolites that are mostly overlain by Paleogene to Miocene turbidites in central Luzon.To clarify the geological development of the PMB with resp...The basement of the Philippine Mobile Belt (PMB) is mainly composed of ophiolites that are mostly overlain by Paleogene to Miocene turbidites in central Luzon.To clarify the geological development of the PMB with respect to the initial stage of the arc volcanism(eg.Yumul et al.,2003,2008;展开更多
文摘This study examines the turbidite dynamics and hydrocarbon reservoir formation in Ghana’s Tano Basin, which is located in coastal West Africa. Through an exploration of geological processes spanning millions of years, we uncover key factors shaping hydrocarbon accumulation, including source rock richness, temperature, pressure, and geological structures. The research offers valuable insights applicable to exploration, management, and sustainable resource exploitation in coastal West Africa. It facilitates the identification of exploration targets with higher hydrocarbon potential, enables the anticipation of reservoir potential within the Tano Basin, and assists in tailoring exploration and management strategies to specific geological conditions of the Tano Basin. Analysis of fluvial channels sheds light on their impact on landscape formation and hydrocarbon exploration. The investigation into turbidite systems unveils intricate interactions involving tectonics, sea-level fluctuations, and sedimentation patterns, influencing the development of reservoirs. An understanding of sediment transport and depositional settings is essential for efficient reservoir management. Geomorphological features, such as channels, submarine canyons, and distinct channel types, are essential in this situation. A detailed examination of turbidite channel structures, encompassing canyons, channel complexes, convex channels, and U-shaped channels, provides valuable insights and aids in identifying exploration targets like basal lag, channel levees, and lobes. These findings underscore the enduring significance of turbidite systems as conduits for sediment transport, contributing to enhanced reservoir management and efficient hydrocarbon production. The study also highlights how important it is to examine the configuration of sedimentary layers, stacking patterns, and angular laminated facies to identify turbidites, understand reservoir distribution, and improve well design. The dynamic nature of turbidite systems, influenced by basin
文摘In a recent contribution G. Shanmugam (2018) discusses and neglects the importance of hyperpycnal flows and hyperpycnites for the understanding of some sediment gravity flow deposits. For him, the hyperpycnal flow paradigm is strictly based on experimental and theoretical concepts, without the supporting empirical data from modern depositional systems. In this discussion I will demonstrate that G. Shanmugam overlooks growing evidences that support the importance of hyperpycnal flows in the accumulation of a huge volume of fossil clastic sediments. Sustained hyperpycnal flows also provide a rational explanation for the origin of well sorted fine-grained massive sandstones with floating clasts, a deposit often wrongly related to sandy debris flows.
文摘浊流和碎屑流等粗粒沉积是深海油气和天然气水合物良好的储层,它的发现和识别对于深海油气和天然气水合物的勘探具有重要意义。在南海北部陆坡神狐海域水深1805 m海底采集的长5.5 m柱状沉积物由2层富有孔虫层和2层深灰色泥质粉砂层相间组成,其中深灰色泥质粉砂层(A_1和A3_)主要为黏土矿物、石英和长石组成,粒径中值在6~15μm之间,Ti/Al、K/Al和Fe/Al比值类似于南海神狐海域表层半深海沉积特征,而富有孔虫砂层(A_2和A_4)的粒度具有向上递减的特征,形成由粗到细的正粒序构造,粒径中值高,Ti/Al、K/Al和Fe/Al比值较高,与A_1和A_3灰色泥质粉砂层相比,含有更多的粗粒陆源物,推测可能是浊流经底流改造的碎屑流沉积。浮游有孔虫^(14)C定年表明下部的A_4层可能晚于42.46~43.53 ka B P,A_2层晚于15.1~15.3ka B P。浊流从浅海搬运来的大量有孔虫在陆坡经碎屑流改造形成富集Ca CO_3的有孔虫富集层。
文摘The Lower Triassic Xikou Formation in southwestern Fujian, China is a set of complex deep water sediments which includes turbidites, sandy contourites and isolated olistoliths. Five facies and seven subfacies are recognized in the deep water turbidites, which are considered to belong to five facies associations of upper, middle and lower fans, respectively. The sandy contourites, which occur within turbidites as isolated thin layers with structures of traction current, are formed by reworking turbidites. They occur in discrete units, not as a part of a vertical sequence of structures, such as Bouma sequence. Paleocurrent directions derived from sandy contourites are perpendicular to or at a large angle of those derived from turbidites. In some areas, within the Formation there exist large oolitic limestone blocks slided from shallow sea. The temporal spatial distribution of three types of sediments mentioned above and the related evidences could indicate that a passive continental margin from shallow sea to bathyal abyssal region, dipping toward southeast, once occurred in study area during the early Triassic. The early Triassic represents a period of sea level uprising. The uprising of sea level and the development of isolated olistoliths probably imply gradual shrinking of an ocean basin at that time.
文摘The basement of the Philippine Mobile Belt (PMB) is mainly composed of ophiolites that are mostly overlain by Paleogene to Miocene turbidites in central Luzon.To clarify the geological development of the PMB with respect to the initial stage of the arc volcanism(eg.Yumul et al.,2003,2008;
