Architecture, evolution and hydrocarbon potential of the Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous carbonate platform in SE Poland and W Ukraine

• Autorzy: Gutowski J. , Popadyuk V. , Urbaniec A. , Złonkiewicz Z. , Gliniak P. , Krzywiec P. , Maksym A. , Wybraniec S.
• Konferencja: International Congress on the Jurassic System (7 ; 06-18.09.2006 ; Kraków, Poland)
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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Well, outcrop, seismic and gravity data were used to construct a series of palaeogeographic maps revealing architecture and evolution of the carbonate platform developed within the northern shelf of Tethys in SE Poland and W Ukraine during Oxfordian through Barremian times. The platform developed in a transition zone between the epicontinental Mid-Polish Trough and the Outer-Carpathian basins. A variety of depositional systems included open shelf spongemicrobial bioherms, coral reefs and oolitic-bioclastic grainstones (see Gutowski et al. 2005, Gliniak et al. 2005) which form hydrocarbon reservoirs in connection with overlying Cenomanian sandstones. Palaeogeographic distribution of the depositional systems evolved in time and was controlled by syn-depositional basement normal/transtensional and strike-slip faulting. A series of analogue models (Gutowski & Koyi 2006a, b) helped to understand a role of strike-slip movements along deep fault zones directed obliquely to the axis of the Mid Polish Through and related to modifications of the extension direction (Gutowski & Wybraniec 2006). These movements controlled fault geometry and the shift of depocenters. Pelagic, black and grey, often bituminous shales (Karolina Formation in Western Ukraine and Cieszyn Shales in Poland), deposited in front of the bioherm-reef belt on the shelf margin, form excellent source rocks. They were deposited since the Late Kimmeridgian due to breaking-up of the peri-Tethyan carbonate platform (Âtramberk type carobonates) and opening of the Silesian Basin (Fig. 1). Consequently, promising traps should mainly be located close to the Late Kimmeridgian - Early Cretaceous shelf margin (Fig. 1), the location of which was inferred using gravity data (Gutowski & Wybraniec 2006). Additional source rocks are of Palaeozoic or Middle Jurassic age. Quality of the reservoirs was often enhanced by diagenesis (e.g. dolomitization), fracturing and pre-Cenomanian karstification. The reservoirs are sealed by Miocene evaporates and/or clays and Upper Cretaceous marls. The Mid-Polish Trough was inverted during the Late Cretaceous and Palaeogene. As a result of Carpathian thrusting, the basin in its southernmost part was covered by the Miocene sediments of the Carpathian foredeep and/or by the Outer Carpathian nappes. Although these tectonic processes modified the evolution of the hydrocarbon system, the Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous facies development and evolution of the carbonate platform were decisive for the primary distribution of the source rocks and potential reservoirs. Therefore, they should play a key role in hydrocarbon exploration strategy.

Słowa kluczowe

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carbonate platform; tectonic control; depositional systems; hydrocarbon exploration

• Wydawca: Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
• Czasopismo: Volumina Jurassica
• Rocznik: 2006
• Tom: Vol. 4, no. 1
• Strony: 46--48
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 5 poz.

Twórcy

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Gutowski J.

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Popadyuk V.

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Urbaniec A.

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Złonkiewicz Z.

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Gliniak P.

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Krzywiec P.

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Maksym A.

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Wybraniec S.

• Polish Geological Institute, ul. Rakowiecka 4, PL-00950 Warszawa, Poland,

Bibliografia

• 1. Gliniak P., Gutowski J. and Urbaniec A. 2005. Organic buildups recognized upon well and seismic data within the Upper Jurassic formations of the Carpathian foreland, Poland; perspectives for hydrocarbon exploration. Volumina Jurassica, 3: 29-44. (th with English abstract).
• 2. Gutowski J., Popadyuk I. V. and Olszewska B. 2005. Late Jurassic - Earliest Cretaceous evolution of the epicontinental sedimentary basin of South-Eastern Poland and Western Ukraine. Geological Quarterly, 49, 1: 45-52.
• 3. Gutowski J. and Koyi H. A. 2006a. Influence of oblique basement strike slip faults on the Mesozoic evolution of the SE segment of the Mid-Polish Trough. Basin Research. (in press)
• 4. Gutowski J. and Koyi H. A. 2006b. Jurassic - Early Cretaceous development of the peri-Carpathian (SE) segment of the Mid-Polish Trough in the light of results of analogue models. Volumina Jurassica, 4, 7th International Congress on the Jurassic System, Abstracts volume: this issue.
• 5. Gutowski J. and Wybraniec S. 2006. Evolution of the SE segment of Mid-Polish Trough in Jurassic and Early Cretaceous. Volumina Jurassica, 4, 7th International Congress on the Jurassic System, Abstracts volume: this issue.