Sequence stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Middle Jurassic coal measures in the Yuqia coalfield, northern Qaidam Basin, northwestern China

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 98 (12) ◽  
pp. 2531-2550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Li ◽  
Longyi Shao ◽  
Jing Lu ◽  
Baruch Spiro ◽  
Huaijun Wen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Northwestern China ◽  
Jurassic Coal ◽  
Coal Measures

Paleoenvironments and paleogeography of the Lower and lower Middle Jurassic coal measures in the Turpan-Hami oil-prone coal basin, northwestern China

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Longyi Shao ◽  
Pengfei Zhang ◽  
Jason Hilton ◽  
Rod Gayer ◽  
Yanbin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Northwestern China ◽  
Coal Basin ◽  
Jurassic Coal ◽  
Coal Measures

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Jurassic Coal Measures in Northwestern China

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 769-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
WANG Tong ◽  
SHAO Longyi ◽  
TIAN Ye ◽  
LU Jing ◽  
WANG Wenlong
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Northwestern China ◽  
Jurassic Coal ◽  
Coal Measures

What we know (and what we don't) about the petroleum prospectivity of the Northland Basin, North Island, New Zealand

2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Uruski
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Margin ◽  
Gondwana Margin ◽  
Jurassic Coal ◽  
Coal Measures

The offshore Northland Basin is a major sedimentary accumulation lying to the west of the Northland Peninsula of New Zealand. It merges with the Taranaki Basin in the south and its deeper units are separated from Deepwater Taranaki by a buried extension of the West Norfolk Ridge. Sedimentary thicknesses increase to the northwest and the Northland Basin may extend into Reinga. Its total area is at least 65,000 km2 and if the Reinga Basin is included, it may be up to 100,000 km2. As in Taranaki, petroleum systems of the Northland Basin were thought to include Cretaceous to Recent sedimentary rocks. Waka Nui–1 was drilled in 1999 and penetrated no Cretaceous sediments, but instead drilled unmetamorphosed Middle Jurassic coal measures. Economic basement may be older meta-sediments of the Murihiku Supergroup. Thick successions onlap the dipping Jurassic unit and a representative Cretaceous succession is likely to be present in the basin. Potential source rocks known to be present include the Middle Jurassic coal measures of Waka Nui–1 and the Waipawa Formation black shale. Inferred source rocks include Late Jurassic coaly rocks of the Huriwai Beds, the Early Cretaceous Taniwha Formation coaly sediments, possible Late Cretaceous coaly units and lean but thick Late Cretaceous and Paleogene marine shales. Below the voluminous Miocene volcanoes of the Northland arc, the eastern margin of the basin is dominated by a sedimentary wedge that thickens to more than two seconds two-way travel time (TWT), or at least 3,000 m, at its eastern margin and appears to have been thrust to the southwest. This is interpreted to be a Mesozoic equivalent of the Taranaki Fault, a back-thrust to subduction along the Gondwana Margin. The ages of sedimentary units in the wedge are unknown but are thought to include a basal Jurassic succession, which dips generally to the east and is truncated by an erosional unconformity. A southwestwards-prograding succession overlies the unconformity and its top surface forms a paleoslope onlapped by sediments of Late Cretaceous to Neogene ages. The upper succession in the wedge may be of Early Cretaceous age—perhaps the equivalent of the Taniwha Formation or the basal succession in Waimamaku–2. The main part of the basin was rifted to form a series of horst and graben features. The age of initial rifting is poorly constrained, but the structural trend is northwest–southeast or parallel to the Early Cretaceous rifting of Deepwater Taranaki and with the Mesozoic Gondwana margin. Thick successions overlie source units which are likely to be buried deeply enough to expel oil and gas, and more than 70 slicks have been identified on satellite SAR data suggesting an active petroleum system. Numerous structural and stratigraphic traps are present and the potential of the Northland Basin is thought to be high.

scholarly journals Elemental geochemistry of the Middle Jurassic shales in the northern Qaidam Basin, northwestern China: Constraints for tectonics and paleoclimate

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1448-1462
Author(s):  
Haihai Hou ◽  
Shujun Liu ◽  
Longyi Shao ◽  
Yonghong Li ◽  
Ming’en Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Late Stage ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Oceanic Island ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Passive Continental Margin ◽  
Northwestern China ◽  
Felsic Rocks

Abstract The elemental geochemical characteristics of mudstones/shales are good tracers for indicating the evolution of tectonics, paleoenvironment, and paleoclimate. Based on the continuous sampling of drilling cores from the Middle Jurassic Dameigou and Shimengou Formations in the northern Qaidam Basin, the major, trace, and rare earth elements of the 31 mudstones and shales were analyzed. The information on the evolution of tectonics, provenance, and paleoclimate during Middle Jurassic was also recovered. The results show that: (1) A couple of elements consisting of Sc, Y, V, Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Th, and U are relatively enriched, indicating that the contents of siderophile and chalcophile elements are significantly high in the Middle Jurassic samples; (2) Changes in the chemical index of alteration, Ga/Rb, and K2O/Al2O3 ratios in the mudstone/shale samples suggest that the paleoclimate was changed from warm and humid in the early stage to cold and dry in the middle stage and to hot and arid in the late stage; (3) The Middle Jurassic provenance of the northern Qaidam Basin was predicted from upper crust and felsic rocks to the mixed felsic rocks and basic rocks; (4) The Middle Jurassic tectonic background was changed from passive continental margin to active continental margin and oceanic island arc. The paleoclimatic and paleogeographic evolution of northern Qaidam Basin were closely related to the surrounding paleo-oceanic and ancient plate activities. In the early stage of the Middle Jurassic, the extensional activity in the passive continental margin and the water vapor input was caused by the Tethys Ocean, resulting in a warm and humid paleoclimate. In the late stage of the Middle Jurassic, the tectonic background of the study area tended to be an oceanic island arc caused by compressive tectonic, which blocked the monsoon input and led to a hot and arid paleoclimate. The establishment of multiple geochemical profiles can provide a scientific basis for the climate changes in greenhouse–icehouses and source–sink systems of the Middle Jurassic in northwestern China.

Sedimentology and Coalbed Methane Geology of Middle Jurassic Coal Measures in Juhugeng Mine, Qinghai Province

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 156-160
Author(s):  
Meng Li ◽  
Zheng Fei Zhang ◽  
Sheng Zhang ◽  
Ming Ming Wang ◽  
Xiang Dong Gao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mine ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Coalbed Methane ◽  
Braided River ◽  
Coal Seams ◽  
Isothermal Adsorption ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Mine Area ◽  
Jurassic Coal ◽  
Coal Measures

Field-based lithofacies in the Middle Jurassic coal measures of the Juhugeng coal mine area of Qinghai Province have been identified employing lithology, geometry and lateral facies relationships. The coal measures were deposited in a range of environments spanning from braided river, delta to lake, and economic coal seams have been formed in the deltaic interdistributary bay and fluvial flood basin environments. The coal has a rank ranging from gas coal to coking coal, and the vitrinite macerals have a relatively high content, being from 60%~80%. Cleats and fractures of coal reservoirs are well developed. The isothermal adsorption experiments reveal that coal in the Juhugeng mine has relatively low Langmuir volume and relatively high Langmuir pressure with low to medium absorbability. All these conditions are beneficial to the formation and preservation of the coalbed methane.

Sequence stratigraphy of source and reservoir rocks in the Upper Permian and Jurassic of Jameson Land, East Greenland

1998 ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Stemmerik ◽  
Gregers Dam ◽  
Nanna Noe-Nygaard ◽  
Stefan Piasecki ◽  
Finn Surlyk
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
Source Rocks ◽  
Upper Permian ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
East Greenland ◽  
Reservoir Rocks

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Stemmerik, L., Dam, G., Noe-Nygaard, N., Piasecki, S., & Surlyk, F. (1998). Sequence stratigraphy of source and reservoir rocks in the Upper Permian and Jurassic of Jameson Land, East Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 180, 43-54. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v180.5085 _______________ Approximately half of the hydrocarbons discovered in the North Atlantic petroleum provinces are found in sandstones of latest Triassic – Jurassic age with the Middle Jurassic Brent Group, and its correlatives, being the economically most important reservoir unit accounting for approximately 25% of the reserves. Hydrocarbons in these reservoirs are generated mainly from the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay and its correlatives with additional contributions from Middle Jurassic coal, Lower Jurassic marine shales and Devonian lacustrine shales. Equivalents to these deeply buried rocks crop out in the well-exposed sedimentary basins of East Greenland where more detailed studies are possible and these basins are frequently used for analogue studies (Fig. 1). Investigations in East Greenland have documented four major organic-rich shale units which are potential source rocks for hydrocarbons. They include marine shales of the Upper Permian Ravnefjeld Formation (Fig. 2), the Middle Jurassic Sortehat Formation and the Upper Jurassic Hareelv Formation (Fig. 4) and lacustrine shales of the uppermost Triassic – lowermost Jurassic Kap Stewart Group (Fig. 3; Surlyk et al. 1986b; Dam & Christiansen 1990; Christiansen et al. 1992, 1993; Dam et al. 1995; Krabbe 1996). Potential reservoir units include Upper Permian shallow marine platform and build-up carbonates of the Wegener Halvø Formation, lacustrine sandstones of the Rhaetian–Sinemurian Kap Stewart Group and marine sandstones of the Pliensbachian–Aalenian Neill Klinter Group, the Upper Bajocian – Callovian Pelion Formation and Upper Oxfordian – Kimmeridgian Hareelv Formation (Figs 2–4; Christiansen et al. 1992). The Jurassic sandstones of Jameson Land are well known as excellent analogues for hydrocarbon reservoirs in the northern North Sea and offshore mid-Norway. The best documented examples are the turbidite sands of the Hareelv Formation as an analogue for the Magnus oil field and the many Paleogene oil and gas fields, the shallow marine Pelion Formation as an analogue for the Brent Group in the Viking Graben and correlative Garn Group of the Norwegian Shelf, the Neill Klinter Group as an analogue for the Tilje, Ror, Ile and Not Formations and the Kap Stewart Group for the Åre Formation (Surlyk 1987, 1991; Dam & Surlyk 1995; Dam et al. 1995; Surlyk & Noe-Nygaard 1995; Engkilde & Surlyk in press). The presence of pre-Late Jurassic source rocks in Jameson Land suggests the presence of correlative source rocks offshore mid-Norway where the Upper Jurassic source rocks are not sufficiently deeply buried to generate hydrocarbons. The Upper Permian Ravnefjeld Formation in particular provides a useful source rock analogue both there and in more distant areas such as the Barents Sea. The present paper is a summary of a research project supported by the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy (Piasecki et al. 1994). The aim of the project is to improve our understanding of the distribution of source and reservoir rocks by the application of sequence stratigraphy to the basin analysis. We have focused on the Upper Permian and uppermost Triassic– Jurassic successions where the presence of source and reservoir rocks are well documented from previous studies. Field work during the summer of 1993 included biostratigraphic, sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic studies of selected time slices and was supplemented by drilling of 11 shallow cores (Piasecki et al. 1994). The results so far arising from this work are collected in Piasecki et al. (1997), and the present summary highlights the petroleum-related implications.

Evolution of the Miocene megalake in the western Qaidam Basin, northwestern China

2021 ◽  
pp. 110384
Author(s):  
Yu Liang ◽  
Bin Zhang ◽  
Yongshu Zhang ◽  
Yancheng Zhang ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qaidam Basin ◽  
Northwestern China ◽  
Western Qaidam Basin
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