沔阳—当阳中生代前陆盆地构造特征及油气勘探

沔阳—当阳前陆盆地自北而南可划分为五个构造单元 :桐柏山—大别山基底卷入推覆构造带、南大巴山—大洪山叠瓦逆冲断裂构造带、沔阳—当阳拗陷变形带、宜昌—沙市前陆斜坡带、黄陵—松滋前缘隆起带。盆地的形成与南大巴山—大洪山造山带的发育密切相关。盆地经历了加里东期、海西—印支期南秦岭洋盆、北华南洋盆的两次“开 (降 )、合 (升 )” ,燕山早期陆内俯冲造山成盆及燕山晚期—喜马拉雅期陆内伸展断陷的演化。盆地油气资源丰富 ,具三套有效烃源岩 :晚奥陶世—早志留世广海陆棚相泥页岩 ,二叠纪滨岸沼泽相含煤泥岩 ,晚三叠世—早侏罗世湖泊—沼泽相暗色泥页岩、煤系泥岩和煤岩。中三叠世—早第三纪为油气生成高峰期。油气运移指向主要为南西方向的前缘隆起     

中国南方海相油气勘探研究新进展

中国南方海相油气勘探研究取得６个方面的进展；１．重塑了华南板块的四个构造演化阶段，将华南板块划分出三个构造区，一个火山岩区和两个造山带，并了南方构造格架与演化对油气地质条件的控制．２．分析了华南板块南北两个大陆边缘沉积盆地的二级超旋回层序，凝缩层段及其与烃源岩发育的关系，并重点分析了区域性四套主力烃源岩的特点；３．提出了华南板块北南两个前陆盆地带的发育对中国南方海相油气的后期保存起着重要的作用。     

大巴山前陆冲断带构造样式和演化过程的数值模拟

由于大巴山地区处于独特的构造背景,拥有丰富的油气资源,正吸引人们开展日益深入的研究。本文通过有限差分方法,利用平面应变的二维弹塑性本构模型,对大巴山前陆冲断带开展了系列数值模拟研究。结果表明,前陆区拥有相对软弱的滑脱层(含膏盐岩的中下三叠统),是大巴山前陆冲断带主滑脱面由后陆向前陆逐渐抬升的主控因素。该滑脱层的分布以及同构造沉积的分布限定了主前缘逆冲断裂(镇巴断裂)的位置,通过该断裂,大巴山后陆的强烈缩短应变由深滑脱层(震旦系下部)向南传递至浅滑脱层(三叠系中下统)。镇巴断裂和城口断裂一起,它们的长期活动性,可能调节了大巴山一半以上的总缩短应变。同构造沉积发生后,前陆区浅层侏罗山式褶皱往前扩展的同时,后陆的先成断裂也继续活动并发生顺时针旋转,构成无序逆冲扩展序列。主要断层的逆冲扩展和经典背驮式不同,缩短应变主要由主断层下盘向后陆深部俯冲来实现。模拟结果和大巴山地质原型的近似程度,说明了利用有限差分软件对地质构造进行模拟的可行性。     

Diagenesis of Upper Carboniferous rocks in the Ouachita foreland shelf in mid-continent USA: an overview of widespread effects of a Variscan-equivalent orogeny

Diagenesis of Upper Carboniferous foreland shelf rocks in southeastern Kansas took place at temperatures as high as 100–150° C at a depth of less than 2 km. High temperatures are the result of the long distance (hundreds of kilometers) advection of groundwater related to collisional orogeny in the Ouachita tectonic belt to the south. Orogenic activity in the Ouachita area was broadly Late Carboniferous, equivalent to the Variscan activity of Europe. Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn deposits and oil and gas fields in the US midcontinent and elsewhere are commonly attributed to regional groundwater flow resulting from such collisional events. This paper describes the diagenesis and thermal effects in sandstone and limestone of Upper Carboniferous siliciclastic and limestone-shale cyclothems, the purported confining layer of a supposed regional aquifer. Diagenesis took place in early, intermediate, and late stages. Many intermediate and late stage events in the sandstones have equivalents in the limestones, suggesting that the causes were regional. The sandstone paragenesis includes siderite cement (early stage), quartz overgrowths (intermediate stage), dissolution of feldspar and carbonates, followed by minor Fe calcite, pore-filling kaolinite and sub-poikilotopic Ca ankerite (late stage). The limestone paragenesis includes calcite cement (early stage); megaquartz, chalcedony, and Fe calcite spar (intermediate stage); and dissolution, Ca-Fe dolomite and kaolinite (late stage). The R _m value of vitrinite shows a regional average of 0.6–0.7%; Rock-Eval T _maX suggests a comparable degree of organic maturity. The T _h of aqueous fluid inclusions in late stage Ca-Fe-Mg carbonates ranges from 90 to 160° and T _mice indicates very saline water (>200000 ppm NaCl equivalent); ¹⁸O suggests that the water is of basinal origin. Local warm spots have higher R _m, T _max, and T _h. The results constrain numerical models of regional fluid migration, which is widely viewed as an artesian flow from recharge areas in the Ouachita belt across the foreland basin onto the foreland shelf area. Such models must account for heating effects that extend at least 500 km from the orogenic front and affect both supposed aquifer beds and the overlying supposed confining layer. Warm spots indicate either more rapid or more prolonged flow locally. T _h and T _mice data show the highest temperatures coincided with high salinity fluids.     

造山带研究中有关复理石和磨拉石的几个问题

在造山带研究中,碰撞方式和时限的争议是全球造山带研究中的一个共同现状或面临的难题。利用复理石和磨拉石时代来限定碰撞时限是造山带研究的一项重要内容。本文首先综述了复理石和磨拉石从提出到广泛应用以及不同历史时期被赋予的构造含义;其次,根据其可能发育的构造环境,指出复理石和磨拉石纪录造山带的相关信息及其演变过程。被动陆缘复理石可能纪录了参与碰撞拼贴块体的亲缘性,而且被动陆缘、活动陆缘或者岛弧环境的复理石均形成于碰撞作用之前,因此最年轻的复理石时代可提供碰撞时间的下限;(周缘)前陆盆地的磨拉石形成于碰撞造山作用过程中,因此其最早的磨拉石沉积时代可用于限定碰撞时间的上限。从复理石到磨拉石地层的渐变过程(连续沉积)指示了碰撞构造事件的发生、以及之后的碰撞造山作用是均变过程,会发育不同尺度规模的不整合。因此,造山带中的不整合未必代表有重大构造事件的发生,而连续沉积并不表明没有大的构造事件。     

The biogenic gas potential of the submarine canyon systems of Plio-Peistocene foreland Basin,southwestern Taiwan

Biogenic gas was accidentally discovered and produced from the Plio/Pleistocene formation of the Hsinying gas field in southwestern Taiwan in 1989. A stratigraphic trapping mechanism related to the evolution of submarine canyon systems in the Plio-Peistocene foreland basin has been proposed in a previous study which explained underestimated recoverable gas reserve before drilling. To verify this shallow gas exploration hypothesis and to systematically evaluate the biogenic gas generation and entrapment potential of the submarine canyon systems, seismic interpretation, high-resolution sequence stratigraphic interpretation, seismic attribute analysis and geochemical analysis were performed and integrated in this study. Twenty-nine submarine canyons mapped mainly trend in a NE direction, except the NW trending Eurchungchi submarine canyons located near the Chiali paleo-high. Bright seismic amplitudes were often observed at the incised valley heads of the canyon systems. The shales located near the incised valley heads and deposited during flooding stage possess the highest biogenic gas generation potential, as canyon fill reveals the second highest. Due to the high sediment accumulation rate in the foreland basin, organic matter in such a depositional environment tends to become diluted. A Class III AVO anomaly, inverted impedance lower than 4.7 e + 6 kg/M³*M/S and A/B (the ratio between the target horizon amplitude and the RMS amplitude from the background strata) greater than 1.78 were identified as valid direct gas indicators as sand is buried shallower than 1000 m. Class IV AVO anomaly and A/B greater than 1.4 were concluded to be the indicators of gas sand in the case that sand is buried deeper than 1600 m. Based on the results of sequence stratigraphic interpretation and the consistency between spatial geometries of seismic attributes and those of the submarine canyons, a stratigraphic trap associated with the incised valley heads was concluded to be the original gas entrapment style of the Hsinying and the Kuantian gas fields. Biogenic gas migrated after being trapped startigraphically, hence contributing to the present-day gas field structure. Due to the prevalent erosional features of the submarine canyons on the time structural maps, different types of stratigraphic traps formed in combination with faults and submarine canyons can be recognized easily.     

‘Isolated base-of-slope aprons’: An oxymoron for shallow-marine fan-shaped,temperate-water,carbonate bodies along the south-east Salento escarpment (Pleistocene,Apulia, southern Italy)

This paper regards the lower Pleistocene temperate-water carbonate deposits disconformably overlying an escarpment made up of faulted Cretaceous to Miocene limestones of the Apulia Foreland (southern Italy). Study deposits discontinuously crop out along the present-day eastern Salento sea cliff, and form isolated fan-shaped bodies, up to 1 km wide and up to 40 to 50 m thick, each of them covering an area of a few square kilometres. The internal arrangement of beds is represented by up to 25° to 30° lobate, seaward dipping clinobeds thinning and onlapping onto a rocky foreslope in the proximal sector and passing to gently inclined to sub-horizontal strata in the distal sector. Seven facies were distinguished, mainly composed of coarse-grained skeletal carbonates made up of a heterozoan association including coralline algae, large and small benthic foraminifera, echinoids, molluscs, bryozoans and serpulids. Since clinobeds were formed thanks to hyperconcentrated density flows (grain flows) bypassing the upper part of the inherited escarpment, these skeletal grains represent ex situ deposits whose shallow-marine factory was located upward (landward) with respect to the bypassed zone, likely in the almost flat area on top of the Salento Peninsula. Clinobeds are often affected by tens of metres wide and long channel-like structures interpreted as landslide scars. Inside these gullies, contorted beds (slumps) or matrix-supported intra-bioclastic floatstone/rudstone (massive deposits) are present. The occurrence of supercritical-flow structures (for example, backset-bedded beds) indicates the development of hydraulic jumps along the steep slope of gullies. Since these clinostratified, fan-shaped carbonate bodies represent carbonate slopes, and that the latter are known as aprons, normally related to linear sourced sediments, an acceptable oxymoron for studied fan-shaped carbonate bodies is suggested: ‘isolated base-of-slope aprons’.     

Stratigraphic architecture of a tide‐influenced shelf‐edge delta,Upper Cretaceous Dorotea Formation,Magallanes‐Austral Basin,Patagonia

The Magallanes‐Austral Basin of Patagonian Chile and Argentina is a retroforeland basin associated with Late Cretaceous–Neogene uplift of the southern Andes. The Upper Cretaceous Dorotea Formation records the final phase of deposition in the Late Cretaceous foredeep, marked by southward progradation of a shelf‐edge delta and slope. In the Ultima Esperanza district of Chile, laterally extensive, depositional dip‐oriented exposures of the Dorotea Formation contain upper slope, delta‐front and delta plain facies. Marginal and shallow marine deposits include abundant indicators of tidal activity including inclined heterolithic stratification, heterolithic to sandy tidal bundles, bidirectional palaeocurrent indicators, flaser/wavy/lenticular bedding, heterolithic tidal flat deposits and a relatively low‐diversity Skolithos ichnofacies assemblage in delta plain facies. This work documents the stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the shelf‐edge delta that was significantly influenced by strong tidal activity. Sediment was delivered to a large slump scar on the shelf‐edge by a basin‐axial fluvial system, where it was significantly reworked and redistributed by tides. A network of tidally modified mouth bars and tidal channels comprised the outermost reaches of the delta complex, which constituted the staging area and initiation point for gravity flows that dominated the slope and deeper basin. The extent of tidal influence on the Dorotea delta also has important implications for Magallanes‐Austral Basin palaeogeography. Prior studies establish axial foreland palaeodrainage, long‐term southward palaeotransport directions and large‐scale topographic confinement within the foredeep throughout Late Cretaceous time. Abundant tidal features in Dorotea Formation strata further suggest that the Magallanes‐Austral Basin was significantly embayed. This ‘Magallanes embayment’ was formed by an impinging fold–thrust belt to the west and a broad forebulge region to the east.     

库车前陆冲断带盐下深层压力特征及其油气勘探意义

库车前陆冲断带盐下深层气藏埋深大, 普遍发育超压。通过收集大量盐下深层压力实测数据, 开展压力分布规律研究, 揭示其与气藏的形成及分布之间的联系。结果表明, 库车前陆冲断带盐下深层压力分布为85~127 MPa, 压力系数分布为1.5~1.9, 为超压特征。平面上, 地层压力和压力系数分布表现为南北分带、东西分段的特征。侏罗系烃源岩距白垩系巴什基奇克组砂岩顶部为1 500~4 000 m之间, 平均为3 000 m, 源储压差在70 MPa以上, 超压流体为天然气强充注成藏提供动力条件, 是形成高效气藏的必要条件。平面上, 盐下深层大气藏(田)的分布与超压分布区叠置;纵向上, 气藏群位于超压集中发育的封闭楔形冲断体内, 成排成带分布。     

前陆盆地沉降机理和地层模型

前陆盆地形成的主要原因是造山带负载导致的岩石圈挠曲。逆冲作用造成地壳增厚,造山带的巨大质量又导致下部岩石圈的区域均衡沉降,从而临近和平行于造山带发育了凹陷。另外,前陆盆地的演化也受到沉积物供应、盆地内沉积物扩散能力、岩石圈强度、造山带逆冲速率、全球海平面变化、和俯冲有关的动力沉降及俯冲负载等众多其它因素的影响。本文阐述了这些因素与前陆盆地沉降的关系,介绍了与幕式逆冲有关的地层模型和欠补偿-过补偿地层模型。希望本文能够对中国西北地区前陆盆地的研究起到一定的借鉴意义。