TRIASSIC-JURASSIC DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF THE DAMPIER AND BEAGLE SUB-BASINS, NORTHWEST SHELF OF AUSTRALIA

1980 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
A. Crostella ◽  
T. Barter
Keyword(s):  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Early Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Depositional History ◽  
Reservoir Rocks ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Regional Tectonic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Extensional Faulting ◽  
Coastal Sedimentation

Very large gas accumulations were discovered in the Dampier Sub-basin on the Northwest Shelf of Australia during the early 1970's. The majority of the reservoirs are fluvial and marginal marine sandstones within a thick intra-cratonic clastic sequence of Early Triassic to Middle Jurassic age. Parts of this succession have been penetrated by more than 60 wells within the Dampier Sub-basin and the adjacent Beagle and Barrow Sub-basins.Broad regional palaeoenvironmental episodes have been established using oriented core supplemented by seismic, palaeontologic and wireline log data. The earliest episode was an Early to Middle Triassic transgressive-regressive cycle which led to marine and marginal marine deposition, followed during the Middle to Late Triassic by dominantly fluvial deposition. A transgression began in the early Rhaetian, characterised by deltaic, estuarine, lagoonal and coastal sedimentation which gave way to fully marine conditions during the Early Jurassic (Hettangian); this was followed by a regressive cycle.A regional tectonic episode followed which resulted in development of troughs, and brought about associated extensional faulting. Marine conditions which typified the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) persisted until the beginning of the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) in the Dampier Sub-basin, but passed rapidly to a fluvio-deltaic cycle in the Beagle Sub-basin. Regressive conditions extended gradually westward until sedimentation was interrupted by the onset of major continental break-up toward the end of the Middle Jurassic.The deposition of an alternating sequence of thick shale and sand during mainly restricted marine and continental conditions has provided the area with potential source and reservoir rocks.

Provenance of Jurassic sedimentary rocks of south-central Quesnellia, British Columbia: implications for paleogeography

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan T Petersen ◽  
Paul L Smith ◽  
James K Mortensen ◽  
Robert A Creaser ◽  
Howard W Tipper
Keyword(s):  
Detrital Zircon ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Source Area ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
Early Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Nd Isotopes ◽  
South Central ◽  
History Of

Jurassic sedimentary rocks of southern to central Quesnellia record the history of the Quesnellian magmatic arc and reflect increasing continental influence throughout the Jurassic history of the terrane. Standard petrographic point counts, geochemistry, Sm–Nd isotopes and detrital zircon geochronology, were employed to study provenance of rocks obtained from three areas of the terrane. Lower Jurassic sedimentary rocks, classified by inferred proximity to their source areas as proximal or proximal basin are derived from an arc source area. Sandstones of this age are immature. The rocks are geochemically and isotopically primitive. Detrital zircon populations, based on a limited number of analyses, have homogeneous Late Triassic or Early Jurassic ages, reflecting local derivation from Quesnellian arc sources. Middle Jurassic proximal and proximal basin sedimentary rocks show a trend toward more evolved mature sediments and evolved geochemical characteristics. The sandstones show a change to more mature grain components when compared with Lower Jurassic sedimentary rocks. There is a decrease in εNdT values of the sedimentary rocks and Proterozoic detrital zircon grains are present. This change is probably due to a combination of two factors: (1) pre-Middle Jurassic erosion of the Late Triassic – Early Jurassic arc of Quesnellia, making it a less dominant source, and (2) the increase in importance of the eastern parts of Quesnellia and the pericratonic terranes, such as Kootenay Terrane, both with characteristically more evolved isotopic values. Basin shale environments throughout the Jurassic show continental influence that is reflected in the evolved geochemistry and Sm–Nd isotopes of the sedimentary rocks. The data suggest southern Quesnellia received material from the North American continent throughout the Jurassic but that this continental influence was diluted by proximal arc sources in the rocks of proximal derivation. The presence of continent-derived material in the distal sedimentary rocks of this study suggests that southern Quesnellia is comparable to known pericratonic terranes.

scholarly journals Mesozoic Intracontinental Orogeny in the Tectonic History of the Kolyvan’– Tomsk Folded Zone (Southern Siberia): a Synthesis of Geological Data and results of Apatite Fission Track Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 1006-1020
Author(s):  
F.I. Zhimulev ◽  
E.V. Vetrov ◽  
I.S. Novikov ◽  
G. Van Ranst ◽  
S. Nachtergaele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Fission Track ◽  
Early Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Apatite Fission Track ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paleozoic Rocks ◽  
Orogenic Events

Abstract —The Kolyvan’–Tomsk folded zone (KTFZ) is a late Permian collisional orogen in the northwestern section of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The Mesozoic history of the KTFZ area includes Late Triassic–Early Jurassic and Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous orogenic events. The earlier event produced narrow deep half-ramp basins filled with Early–Middle Jurassic molasse south of the KTFZ, and the later activity rejuvenated the Tomsk thrust fault, whereby the KTFZ Paleozoic rocks were thrust over the Early–Middle Jurassic basin sediments. The Mesozoic orogenic events induced erosion and the ensuing exposure of granitoids (Barlak complex) that were emplaced in a within-plate context after the Permian collisional orogeny. Both events were most likely associated with ocean closure, i.e., the Paleothetys Ocean in the Late Triassic–Early Jurassic and the Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous. The apatite fission track (AFT) ages of granitoids from the Ob’ complex in the KTFZ range between ~120 and 100 Ma (the Aptian and the Albian). The rocks with Early Cretaceous AFT ages were exhumed as a result of denudation and peneplanation of the Early Cretaceous orogeny, which produced a vast Late Cretaceous–Paleogene planation surface. The tectonic pattern of the two orogenic events, although being different in details, generally inherited the late Paleozoic primary collisional structure of the Kolyvan’–Tomsk zone.

COMPUTER MODELING OF THE SAND BODIES DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE JURASSIC PETROLEUM PLAY (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE GERASIMOVSKOE FIELD, WESTERN SIBERIA)

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
M. O. Fedorovich ◽  
◽  
A. Yu. Kosmacheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Gas Condensate ◽  
Facies Modeling ◽  
Depositional History ◽  
Sedimentary Environments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Underwater Slope ◽  
Mouth Bars ◽  
Sand Bodies

The present paper describes the DIONISOS software package (Beicip-Technologies), where the reconstruction of the accumulation conditions and facies modeling of sand reservoirs Yu10, Yu9, Yu8, Yu7 and Yu6 of the Tyumenskaya Formation and carbonaceous-clay members acting as fluid seals within the Gerasimovskoye oil and gas condensate field located in the south of the Parabel district of the Tomsk region. Reconstructions of facies environments make it possible to consistently restore conditions and create a general principled model of the accumulation of sandy-argillaceous deposits of the Middle Jurassic PP in a given territory. Polyfacies deposits of the Bajocian are represented by sands of distributaries and stream-mouth bars, underwater slope of delta, above-water and underwater delta plains, argillaceous-carbonaceous sediments of floodplain lakes, bogs, marshes and lagoons, clays formed at the border of the above-water and underwater deltaic plains, silt deposits of above-water and underwater delta plains, prodelta clays. As a result of the 3D facies model construction, it is shown that the subcontinental sedimentary environments of sand reservoirs Yu10–Yu8 are replaced by deltaic and floodplain-lacustrine-boggy ones, and the formation of Yu7–Yu6 reservoirs occurs in conditions of coastal plain, periodically flooded by the sea. In total, 5 lithotypes of sand deposits have been identified, 1 – argillaceous-carbonaceous, 2 – argillaceous and 1 – silty. Computer facies 3D modeling of the sand bodies assemblage (hydrocarbon reservoirs) of the Bajocian age for the Gerasimovskoye oil and gas condensate field has been performed.

scholarly journals Triassic–Jurassic mass extinction as trigger for the Mesozoic radiation of crocodylomorphs

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 20130095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olja Toljagić ◽  
Richard J. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Early Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
History Of ◽  
Larger Sample ◽  
Lineage Diversity

Pseudosuchia, one of the two main clades of Archosauria (Reptilia: Diapsida), suffered a major decline in lineage diversity during the Triassic–Jurassic (TJ) mass extinction (approx. 201 Ma). Crocodylomorpha, including living crocodilians and their extinct relatives, is the only group of pseudosuchians that survived into the Jurassic. We reassess changes in pseudosuchian morphological diversity (disparity) across this time interval, using considerably larger sample sizes than in previous analyses. Our results show that metrics of pseudosuchian disparity did not change significantly across the TJ boundary, contrasting with previous work suggesting low pseudosuchian disparity in the Early Jurassic following the TJ mass extinction. However, a significant shift in morphospace occupation between Late Triassic and Early Jurassic taxa is recognized, suggesting that the TJ extinction of many pseudosuchian lineages was followed by a major and geologically rapid adaptive radiation of crocodylomorphs. This marks the onset of the spectacularly successful evolutionary history of crocodylomorphs in Jurassic and Cretaceous ecosystems.

scholarly journals A new stem turtle from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland: new insights into the evolution and palaeoecology of basal turtles

2008 ◽  
Vol 276 (1658) ◽  
pp. 879-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérémy Anquetin ◽  
Paul M Barrett ◽  
Marc E.H Jones ◽  
Scott Moore-Fay ◽  
Susan E Evans
Keyword(s):  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Sister Group Relationship ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Crown Group ◽  
History Of ◽  
Isle Of Skye

The discovery of a new stem turtle from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) deposits of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, sheds new light on the early evolutionary history of Testudinata. Eileanchelys waldmani gen. et sp. nov. is known from cranial and postcranial material of several individuals and represents the most complete Middle Jurassic turtle described to date, bridging the morphological gap between basal turtles from the Late Triassic–Early Jurassic and crown-group turtles that diversify during the Late Jurassic. A phylogenetic analysis places the new taxon within the stem group of Testudines (crown-group turtles) and suggests a sister-group relationship between E. waldmani and Heckerochelys romani from the Middle Jurassic of Russia. Moreover, E. waldmani also demonstrates that stem turtles were ecologically diverse, as it may represent the earliest known aquatic turtle.

scholarly journals Depositional History of Paleocene Sediments in the Offshore Canterbury Basin, New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sanjay Paul Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Data ◽  
The South ◽  
Depositional History ◽  
Reservoir Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Paleocene ◽  
Shelf Slope ◽  
History Of ◽  
Well Correlation ◽  
First Time

<p>The Paleocene interval within the Canterbury Basin has been relatively understudied with respect to the Neogene and Cretaceous intervals. Within the Paleocene interval is the Tartan Formation and the Charteris Bay Sandstone, which are potential source and reservoir rocks respectively. These two formations have not been previously mapped in the offshore Canterbury Basin and their limits have not been defined. This study utilises a database of nearly 12,000km of 2D seismic data together with data from four open–file wells and sidewall core samples from three wells and newly availiable biostratigraphic information to better constrain the chronostratigraphical interpretation of seismic data. Seismic mapping together with corroboration from well correlation and core lithofacies analysis revealed new insights into the development of the offshore Canterbury Basin through the Paleocene. These include the delineation of the lateral extents and thicknesses of the Tartan Formation and Charteris Bay Sandstone and location of the palaeo shelf–slope break and also the development of a new well correlation panel that incorporates the Tartan Formation for the first time.  This study presents four new paleogeographic maps for the offshore Canterbury Basin that significantly improves our understanding of the development of the basin during the Paleocene. These maps show that during the Earliest Paleocene, the mudstones of the Katiki Formation were being deposited in the south of the study area, with the siltier sediments of the Conway Formation being deposited in the north. The coarser grained Charteris Bay Sandstone was deposited from Early to possibly Middle Paleocene in the northeast. The mudstones of the Moeraki Formation were being deposited in the south at this time. From Middle to Late Paleocene, the mudstones of the Moeraki Formation were deposited in the south and these mudstones onlapped against the Charteris Bay Sandstone which remained as a high in the north. The Tartan Formation was deposited during the Late Paleocene in the central and southern areas of the offshore Canterbury Basin, during a relative fall in sea–level. Deposition had ceased in the north of the study area or erosion possibly removed Late Paleocene sediments from there. During the Latest Paleocene, the mudstones of the Moeraki Formation were deposited over the Tartan Formation in the central and southern parts of the offshore Canterbury Basin with the northern area undergoing erosion, sediment bypass or both.</p>

scholarly journals Depositional History of Paleocene Sediments in the Offshore Canterbury Basin, New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sanjay Paul Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Data ◽  
The South ◽  
Depositional History ◽  
Reservoir Rocks ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Paleocene ◽  
Shelf Slope ◽  
History Of ◽  
Well Correlation ◽  
First Time

<p>The Paleocene interval within the Canterbury Basin has been relatively understudied with respect to the Neogene and Cretaceous intervals. Within the Paleocene interval is the Tartan Formation and the Charteris Bay Sandstone, which are potential source and reservoir rocks respectively. These two formations have not been previously mapped in the offshore Canterbury Basin and their limits have not been defined. This study utilises a database of nearly 12,000km of 2D seismic data together with data from four open–file wells and sidewall core samples from three wells and newly availiable biostratigraphic information to better constrain the chronostratigraphical interpretation of seismic data. Seismic mapping together with corroboration from well correlation and core lithofacies analysis revealed new insights into the development of the offshore Canterbury Basin through the Paleocene. These include the delineation of the lateral extents and thicknesses of the Tartan Formation and Charteris Bay Sandstone and location of the palaeo shelf–slope break and also the development of a new well correlation panel that incorporates the Tartan Formation for the first time.  This study presents four new paleogeographic maps for the offshore Canterbury Basin that significantly improves our understanding of the development of the basin during the Paleocene. These maps show that during the Earliest Paleocene, the mudstones of the Katiki Formation were being deposited in the south of the study area, with the siltier sediments of the Conway Formation being deposited in the north. The coarser grained Charteris Bay Sandstone was deposited from Early to possibly Middle Paleocene in the northeast. The mudstones of the Moeraki Formation were being deposited in the south at this time. From Middle to Late Paleocene, the mudstones of the Moeraki Formation were deposited in the south and these mudstones onlapped against the Charteris Bay Sandstone which remained as a high in the north. The Tartan Formation was deposited during the Late Paleocene in the central and southern areas of the offshore Canterbury Basin, during a relative fall in sea–level. Deposition had ceased in the north of the study area or erosion possibly removed Late Paleocene sediments from there. During the Latest Paleocene, the mudstones of the Moeraki Formation were deposited over the Tartan Formation in the central and southern parts of the offshore Canterbury Basin with the northern area undergoing erosion, sediment bypass or both.</p>

Why Was There a “Marsupial-Placental Dichotomy?”

1984 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Jason A. Lillegraven
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationship ◽  
Early Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Cosmopolitan Distribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Adaptive Complexity ◽  
Rich History

Living mammals are divided into three groups: (1) monotremes (“prototherians”, three genera of egg-layers of the Australian realm); (2) marsupials (“metatherians”, the diverse “pouched mammals” of the Australian realm and the Americas); and (3) eutherians (“placentals”, the rest of us, with the greatest taxonomic and adaptive complexity, and having nearly cosmopolitan distribution). The marsupials plus eutherians are referred to as “therians,” a subclass that has a rich history of diversity of extinct varieties in addition to the living orders (Cassiliano and Clemens, 1979; Kraus, 1979; Kielan-Jaworowska, Eaton and Bown, 1979). The phylogenetic relationship between monotremes and modern therians is contested. Traditional wisdom had it that monotremes have been distinct from therians since virtually the beginnings of mammalian history (e.g., Marshall, 1979) in the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic. Kemp (1983), however, favored a closer relationship between monotremes and therians, with their presumed divergence at some later, but paleontologically undefined, time.

scholarly journals Stratigraphic architecture of the northern Oman continental margin - Mesozoic Hamrat Duru Group, Hawasina complex, Oman

GeoArabia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Blechschmidt ◽  
Paulian Dumitrica ◽  
Albert Mater ◽  
Leopold Krystyn ◽  
Tjerk Peters
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Early Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Oman Mountains ◽  
Stratigraphic Architecture ◽  
Lithostratigraphic Units ◽  
Nappe Complex ◽  
Arabian Platform

ABSTRACT The Triassic to Late Cretaceous deep-marine sediments of the Hamrat Duru Group, Oman Mountains, represent a subunit of the Hawasina nappe-complex which was deposited in a deep marine basin. During the Late Cretaceous SSW-directed obduction of the Semail Ophiolite, the Hawasina complex was emplaced onto the autochthonous cover of the Arabian basement, while the original configuration of the basin was destroyed. New lithostratigraphic results and high-resolution radiolarian and conodont biostratigraphy lead to a revised stratigraphic scheme of the Hamrat Duru Group which conforms with the standard stratigraphical nomenclature. The Hamrat Duru Group is divided into six formations: (1) The Early Triassic (Olenekian) to Late Triassic (Upper Norian) Zulla Formation (Limestone and Shale Member, Sandstone and Shale Member, Radiolarian Chert Member and Halobia Limestone Member); (2) The Late Triassic (late Norian to Rhaetian) Al Ayn Formation; (3) The Early Jurassic (late Pliensbachian) to Middle Jurassic (early Callovian) Guwayza Formation (Tawi Sadh Member and Oolitic Limestone Member); (4) Middle Jurassic (Callovian) to Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian?) Sid’r Formation (Lower Member, Upper Member); (5) Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian? to Santonian?) Nayid Formation; and (6) Late Jurassic (early Callovian) to Early (Late?) Cretaceous Wahrah Formation. Most of the lithostratigraphic units (formations and members) show isochronous boundaries between the different outcrop areas. The stratigraphic architecture of the Hamrat Duru Group megasequence is controlled by alternating siliciclastic and carbonate sedimentation possibly related to the second-order sea-level variations. The sediments accumulated on the continental rise of the Arabian margin mostly by submarine sediment-gravity flows and hemipelagic to pelagic rainout. A close relationship of the evolution of the Arabian Platform and the adjoining slope and basinal environments is evident. Changes in carbonate supply, oceanographic circulation and/or variations in silica productivity resulted in two distinct phases of radiolarian sedimentation. The first phase corresponds to the Triassic late Anisian-early Norian time interval; the second started in the Early Jurassic late Pliensbachian and lasted, with some interruptions, up to the Late Cretaceous Coniacian. The litho- and biostratigraphic similarities between the Mesozoic Hamrat Duru Basin of the northern/central Oman Mountains and the Mesozoic Batain Basin of northeastern Oman are seen as related to Neo-Tethys-wide palaeoceanographic changes and suggest a strong interdependence of the two basins with the evolution of the Arabian Platform.

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