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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Houda Hajri; Hassen Abdallah;Houda Hajri; Hassen Abdallah;Abstract In Western-Central Tunisia, Kasserine area, dolomitization of Jabel Semmama Aptian limestones of the Serj Formation (Fm) led to the dolostones of the Orbata Fm. These dolostones are cross-cut by several generations of faulting and fracturing. The current study focused on E-W trending faults and fractures system incorporating carbonate infills and freshwater flows which have stimulated continental diagenetic processes. The faulting, fracturing and rock-fluid interactions yielded nine fault-infill diagenetic and tectonic-sedimentary phases. The purpose of studying the tectonic stresses and the nine phases was to elucidate their late impact on the Aptian dolostone reservoir quality. This enquiry was based on lithological, tectonic, microfacies and oxygen/carbon (O/C) isotopes investigations. Analyses of stable O/C isotopes are performed on crushed and dedolomitized dolostones as well as on calcite cement laminae and spherulites (C1, C2). The crushed and dedolomitized dolostones δ18O and δ13C data (averages: −4.0‰V-PDB/+1.75‰V-PDB) remain close to the moderately depleted results of the Aptian replacive dolostone host rocks (averages: −3.6‰V-PDB/+2.0‰V-PDB). Inversely, calcite cement laminae and spherulites (C1, C2) yielded strikingly depleted oxygen values (δ18O averages: −7.77‰V-PDB/−8.0‰V-PDB) pointing out to freshwater controlled diagenesis. The discrepancy between the two records (−0.23‰V-PDB) is ascribed to cooling during the precipitation of calcitic cement spherulites. The divergence between the two depleted δ13C values of the two cements C1, C2 (averages: −6.19‰V-PDB and −4.0‰V-PDB) is attributed to climatic control (wet/dry alternations) that controlled the micritization phenomenon. The latter orchestered the release of Ca12CO3 being more mobile than Ca13CO3. This process is in agreement with the strong variation of fluid-flow supplies (vadose, phreatic) transcribed in the lithology as cement phases (lamellar, spherulites, gelatinous, vadose and granular). The study series record two major climatic changes, a wet period encompassing phases P1–P4, and a dry period extending on phases P5–P9. Two short cool and wet episodes accompany this period. The nine tectonic-sedimentary and diagenetic phases occurred into two periods through the telogenetic stage (uplift). They started at the Miocene-Pliocene during the Atlasic foldings along E-W faults and fractures (Phases P1–P6) and continued throughout the Quaternary period (Villafranchian) along a reactivation of the same direction (Phases P7–P9). We believe that the nine phases arose after the OAE's organic matter maturity and thus had nearly no impact on any early oil migration while the earlier diagenesis phases remain the most useful for the reservoir quality.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu5 citations 5 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019 FrancePublisher:Elsevier BV Najeh Ben Chaabane; Fares Khemiri; Mohamed Soussi; Jean-Louis Latil; Emmanuel Robert; Ilef Belhajtaher;Abstract In this paper, we present an updated biostratigraphic evaluation of the Serdj Formation of the Tunisian Atlas. Newly collected ammonites, combined with available biostratigraphic data, allowed the establishment of a new and robust stratigraphic framework for this well-known formation. For the first time the characterization of the Mellegueiceras chihaouiae Zone has permitted the specification of the Aptian-Albian transition. This study reveals an early Albian age for the top of the Serdj Formation that includes the main reservoir flow unit which is producing oil in both onshore and offshore Tunisia. Outcrop data analysis has revealed nine transgressive-regressive cycles within the Aptian - early Albian carbonates. During early Aptian the carbonate deposition occurred in deep-marine settings that gave way to shallow, open shelf carbonates deposition during the late Aptian - early Albian. These successions provide evidences enabling their correlation with the third-order global depositional sequences detected in the sedimentary basins of the Tethyan domains. Regional surface to subsurface stratigraphic correlation, based on seismic and wire-line logs, enabled: (1) a reliable correlation between the stratigraphic elements of the buried successions with those of the Serdj Formation, (2) the characterization of the platform-basin transition domain and (3) the verification of the hypothesis that the Serdj Formation carbonates constitute the surface analogue of the subsurface oil field reservoirs. The detailed conceptual stratigraphic model suggests that the Serdj platform developed diachronous. Its demise occurred in the early Albian and not during the Aptian-Albian transition as previously believed. The hydrocarbon-productive reservoirs developed during the regressive phases especially in the up-dip settings of the platform where dolomitization greatly enhanced the reservoir quality.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu23 citations 23 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Zouhair Touati; Taoufik A. Haji;Zouhair Touati; Taoufik A. Haji;Abstract In northern Tunisia, the Cenomanian-Turonian sediments are characterized by organic-rich material. These deposits are commonly attributed to the Bahloul Formation and record the worldwide OAE2 event. In general, the Bahloul Formation is related to paleogeographic and tectonic events, these results suggest that multiple causes, including primary productivity, sea level changes, climatically driven organic carbon burial and structural framework. This formation is composed of three differentiated units, the first unit (U1) is composed of laminated limestones with small intercalations of marls (%CaCO 3 varies between 48 and 83), the second unit (U2) is characterized by very thin beds of marls, argillaceous and laminated limestones (%CaCO 3 ranging from 57 to 85). Lastly, the third unit (U3) is represented by a set of thick-black shales (with some levels of marls). Isotopic δ 13 C carb study shows a large positive excursion in the Bahloul Formation. It is characterized by three peaks that exceed 3‰. First and the second peaks are identified at the lower unit U1 with isotopic values recording 3.2 and 3.3‰ respectively. Third peak is recorded in the middle of the unit U2 and it attains 3.2‰. This section records important TOC values reaching up to 3.84% in unit U1, with average values exceeding 3%. The Rock-Eval data shows a marine organic matter with kerogen Type II (429 max > 435 °C), which can generate oils. A significant enrichment of major and trace elements are also recorded which took place during the deposition of the Bahloul Formation. In general, high levels of P, Cu and Ni indicate a high surface primary productivity, which led to the accumulation of large quantities of organic matter on the sea floor.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu12 citations 12 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 ItalyPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Imen Chalwati; Fabrizio Berra; Noureddine Boukadi;Imen Chalwati; Fabrizio Berra; Noureddine Boukadi;handle: 2434/581946
Abstract The comparison of subsidence curves obtained from deep wells in sedimentary basins represents a powerful tool to identify major changes in subsidence distribution, both in time and space. The construction of subsidence curves from 19 wells, covering a time interval from the Cretaceous to the present in the Gabes Basin (Pelagian Domain of the eastern Tunisian Platform), provided the opportunity to reconstruct the subsidence patterns across the basin. Changes in the subsidence rates in different wells allowed the identification of six time-intervals (stages). Stage boundaries are defined by major changes in subsidence trends in the 19 wells: each stage is characterized by changes in the subsidence pattern of groups of wells, likely reflecting episodes of re-organization of the distribution of domains with different trends (increase or decrease) of subsidence. Comparisons among the subsidence curves highlighted, for each stage, parts of the basins with higher or lower subsidence, permitting to identify highs and lows and to reconstruct their significance in the different stages identified. The basin-scale changes in the distribution of subsidence rates reflect regional events of basin re-organization, potentially controlled by syndepositional faults or, for some stages, by halokinesis, due to the presence of salt deposits in the southern part of the study area. The comparison of the subsidence curves permitted to identify domains characterized, in different time intervals, by different patterns of subsidence rates, providing important elements for the characterization of the different stages in the stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of the basin.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu2 citations 2 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum Geology; Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca dell'Università degli Studi di MilanoArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017Publisher:Elsevier BV Mohamed Soussi; Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki; Mateusz Tałanda; Dawid Dróżdż; Tomasz Sulej; Kamel Boukhalfa; Janusz Mermer; Błażej Błażejowski;Abstract The “red beds” of the Triassic succession outcropping at Tejra-Medenine (southern Tunisia, Saharan Platform) have yielded rich fossil assemblages of both freshwater and brackish-marine invertebrates and vertebrates. The new discovered fauna indicates an Anisian-Lower Ladinian age for the Tejra section. Its lowermost part is considered as equivalent of Ouled Chebbi Formation, while the medium and upper parts are considered as equivalent of the Kirchaou Formation. Both sedimentological characteristics and fossil assemblages indicate the increasing marine influences within the middle part of the section and the migration of brackish and freshwater fauna into the lacustrine/playa environment at the top. The marine fauna-rich interval of the Tejra section correlates well with the well-known Myophoria-rich carbonate stratigraphic marker confirming the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) major transgression well recorded eastward in the Tunisian Jeffara basin and in Libya. The use of this Ladinian stratigraphic event in addition to the Carnian carbonate transgressive events of the Jeffara escarpment outcrops was of great help for regional lithostratigraphic correlations between the Triassic outcropping series and those currently buried in Ghadames and Berkine basins. The age of the sandstones of “Trias Argilo-Greseux Inferieur” (TAGI) which forms the main oil and gas reservoir in the Saharan domain is attributed to the Anisian-Carnian and considered as coeval of Ouled Chebbi and Kirchaou Formations of the Dahar escarpment. An updated synthetic stratigraphic chart is proposed for the Triassic of Saharan Platform domain on the basis of the compilation of the new obtained results and the subsurface data taken from published literature.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu26 citations 26 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2017 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2016 FrancePublisher:Elsevier BV Akrout, Dhaou; Cobbold, Peter R.; Ahmadi, Riadh; Mercier, Eric; Montacer, Mabrouk;The Gulf of Mexico and the offshore Campos and Santos basins of Brazil provide good examples of sub-salt detachments, by shearing in the presence of overpressure. We have developed new physical models of such situations, including layers of ductile silicone putty, which simulated an evaporite, and fluid overpressure in porous brittle layers. We studied two configurations, in which the maximal overpressure was either beneath a single ductile layer of silicone (simulating salt), or between two such layers of silicone (simulating an evaporite sequence). The results of our analogue modelling showed that detachment faults appeared and persisted at the bases of the ductile layers, even though some ductile deformation occurred simultaneously within these layers. For models where maximal overpressure was between two ductile layers, detachment occurred mainly at the base of the upper silicone layer. On comparing our models with structures in the Gulf of Mexico or offshore Brazil, we find strong similarities, which lead us to suspect that detachment is indeed possible at the base of an evaporite sequence in nature. This conclusion has strong implications, not only for the understanding of petroleum systems, but also for better management of petroleum productionin sedimentary basins. International audience
HAL-Rennes 1; Mémoir... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum Geology; Hal-DiderotArticle . 2016Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 4 citations 4 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert HAL-Rennes 1; Mémoir... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum Geology; Hal-DiderotArticle . 2016Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2007Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Adel Arfaoui; Mabrouk Montacer; Fekri Kamoun; Adel Rigane;Adel Arfaoui; Mabrouk Montacer; Fekri Kamoun; Adel Rigane;Abstract Sedimentary rock samples from the Ypresian Basin, in central-northern Tunisia, were analyzed by two well-proven organic geochemical methods: Rock-Eval (RE) pyrolysis and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) analysis. These techniques were uses to obtain independent parameters on organic matter composition, its thermal maturity, and environment of deposition. This study reveals a close concordance between Rock-Eval pyrolysis data and polycyclic biomarkers parameters such as hopanes and steranes. RE pyrolysis in conjunction with GC–MS analysis show that the Ypresian Basin sediments contain a variable but notable organic-rich facies during the Ypresian and prove an unequivocal evidence for Type-II organic matter, which lies dominantly prior to the peak stage of the conventional oil window (end of diagenesis-beginning of catagenesis). The case study from the Ypresian Basin shows that these methods remain undoubtedly suitable for a good assessment of the petroleum potential of source rocks and rapid geochemical characterization of sedimentary organic matter.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Houda Hajri; Hassen Abdallah;Houda Hajri; Hassen Abdallah;Abstract In Western-Central Tunisia, Kasserine area, dolomitization of Jabel Semmama Aptian limestones of the Serj Formation (Fm) led to the dolostones of the Orbata Fm. These dolostones are cross-cut by several generations of faulting and fracturing. The current study focused on E-W trending faults and fractures system incorporating carbonate infills and freshwater flows which have stimulated continental diagenetic processes. The faulting, fracturing and rock-fluid interactions yielded nine fault-infill diagenetic and tectonic-sedimentary phases. The purpose of studying the tectonic stresses and the nine phases was to elucidate their late impact on the Aptian dolostone reservoir quality. This enquiry was based on lithological, tectonic, microfacies and oxygen/carbon (O/C) isotopes investigations. Analyses of stable O/C isotopes are performed on crushed and dedolomitized dolostones as well as on calcite cement laminae and spherulites (C1, C2). The crushed and dedolomitized dolostones δ18O and δ13C data (averages: −4.0‰V-PDB/+1.75‰V-PDB) remain close to the moderately depleted results of the Aptian replacive dolostone host rocks (averages: −3.6‰V-PDB/+2.0‰V-PDB). Inversely, calcite cement laminae and spherulites (C1, C2) yielded strikingly depleted oxygen values (δ18O averages: −7.77‰V-PDB/−8.0‰V-PDB) pointing out to freshwater controlled diagenesis. The discrepancy between the two records (−0.23‰V-PDB) is ascribed to cooling during the precipitation of calcitic cement spherulites. The divergence between the two depleted δ13C values of the two cements C1, C2 (averages: −6.19‰V-PDB and −4.0‰V-PDB) is attributed to climatic control (wet/dry alternations) that controlled the micritization phenomenon. The latter orchestered the release of Ca12CO3 being more mobile than Ca13CO3. This process is in agreement with the strong variation of fluid-flow supplies (vadose, phreatic) transcribed in the lithology as cement phases (lamellar, spherulites, gelatinous, vadose and granular). The study series record two major climatic changes, a wet period encompassing phases P1–P4, and a dry period extending on phases P5–P9. Two short cool and wet episodes accompany this period. The nine tectonic-sedimentary and diagenetic phases occurred into two periods through the telogenetic stage (uplift). They started at the Miocene-Pliocene during the Atlasic foldings along E-W faults and fractures (Phases P1–P6) and continued throughout the Quaternary period (Villafranchian) along a reactivation of the same direction (Phases P7–P9). We believe that the nine phases arose after the OAE's organic matter maturity and thus had nearly no impact on any early oil migration while the earlier diagenesis phases remain the most useful for the reservoir quality.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu5 citations 5 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019 FrancePublisher:Elsevier BV Najeh Ben Chaabane; Fares Khemiri; Mohamed Soussi; Jean-Louis Latil; Emmanuel Robert; Ilef Belhajtaher;Abstract In this paper, we present an updated biostratigraphic evaluation of the Serdj Formation of the Tunisian Atlas. Newly collected ammonites, combined with available biostratigraphic data, allowed the establishment of a new and robust stratigraphic framework for this well-known formation. For the first time the characterization of the Mellegueiceras chihaouiae Zone has permitted the specification of the Aptian-Albian transition. This study reveals an early Albian age for the top of the Serdj Formation that includes the main reservoir flow unit which is producing oil in both onshore and offshore Tunisia. Outcrop data analysis has revealed nine transgressive-regressive cycles within the Aptian - early Albian carbonates. During early Aptian the carbonate deposition occurred in deep-marine settings that gave way to shallow, open shelf carbonates deposition during the late Aptian - early Albian. These successions provide evidences enabling their correlation with the third-order global depositional sequences detected in the sedimentary basins of the Tethyan domains. Regional surface to subsurface stratigraphic correlation, based on seismic and wire-line logs, enabled: (1) a reliable correlation between the stratigraphic elements of the buried successions with those of the Serdj Formation, (2) the characterization of the platform-basin transition domain and (3) the verification of the hypothesis that the Serdj Formation carbonates constitute the surface analogue of the subsurface oil field reservoirs. The detailed conceptual stratigraphic model suggests that the Serdj platform developed diachronous. Its demise occurred in the early Albian and not during the Aptian-Albian transition as previously believed. The hydrocarbon-productive reservoirs developed during the regressive phases especially in the up-dip settings of the platform where dolomitization greatly enhanced the reservoir quality.
Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu23 citations 23 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Zouhair Touati; Taoufik A. Haji;Zouhair Touati; Taoufik A. Haji;Abstract In northern Tunisia, the Cenomanian-Turonian sediments are characterized by organic-rich material. These deposits are commonly attributed to the Bahloul Formation and record the worldwide OAE2 event. In general, the Bahloul Formation is related to paleogeographic and tectonic events, these results suggest that multiple causes, including primary productivity, sea level changes, climatically driven organic carbon burial and structural framework. This formation is composed of three differentiated units, the first unit (U1) is composed of laminated limestones with small intercalations of marls (%CaCO 3 varies between 48 and 83), the second unit (U2) is characterized by very thin beds of marls, argillaceous and laminated limestones (%CaCO 3 ranging from 57 to 85). Lastly, the third unit (U3) is represented by a set of thick-black shales (with some levels of marls). Isotopic δ 13 C carb study shows a large positive excursion in the Bahloul Formation. It is characterized by three peaks that exceed 3‰. First and the second peaks are identified at the lower unit U1 with isotopic values recording 3.2 and 3.3‰ respectively. Third peak is recorded in the middle of the unit U2 and it attains 3.2‰. This section records important TOC values reaching up to 3.84% in unit U1, with average values exceeding 3%. The Rock-Eval data shows a marine organic matter with kerogen Type II (429 max > 435 °C), which can generate oils. A significant enrichment of major and trace elements are also recorded which took place during the deposition of the Bahloul Formation. In general, high levels of P, Cu and Ni indicate a high surface primary productivity, which led to the accumulation of large quantities of organic matter on the sea floor.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu12 citations 12 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2019 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 ItalyPublisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Imen Chalwati; Fabrizio Berra; Noureddine Boukadi;Imen Chalwati; Fabrizio Berra; Noureddine Boukadi;handle: 2434/581946
Abstract The comparison of subsidence curves obtained from deep wells in sedimentary basins represents a powerful tool to identify major changes in subsidence distribution, both in time and space. The construction of subsidence curves from 19 wells, covering a time interval from the Cretaceous to the present in the Gabes Basin (Pelagian Domain of the eastern Tunisian Platform), provided the opportunity to reconstruct the subsidence patterns across the basin. Changes in the subsidence rates in different wells allowed the identification of six time-intervals (stages). Stage boundaries are defined by major changes in subsidence trends in the 19 wells: each stage is characterized by changes in the subsidence pattern of groups of wells, likely reflecting episodes of re-organization of the distribution of domains with different trends (increase or decrease) of subsidence. Comparisons among the subsidence curves highlighted, for each stage, parts of the basins with higher or lower subsidence, permitting to identify highs and lows and to reconstruct their significance in the different stages identified. The basin-scale changes in the distribution of subsidence rates reflect regional events of basin re-organization, potentially controlled by syndepositional faults or, for some stages, by halokinesis, due to the presence of salt deposits in the southern part of the study area. The comparison of the subsidence curves permitted to identify domains characterized, in different time intervals, by different patterns of subsidence rates, providing important elements for the characterization of the different stages in the stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of the basin.
Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum Geology; Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca dell'Università degli Studi di MilanoArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu2 citations 2 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum Geology; Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca dell'Università degli Studi di MilanoArticle . 2018 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017Publisher:Elsevier BV Mohamed Soussi; Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki; Mateusz Tałanda; Dawid Dróżdż; Tomasz Sulej; Kamel Boukhalfa; Janusz Mermer; Błażej Błażejowski;Abstract The “red beds” of the Triassic succession outcropping at Tejra-Medenine (southern Tunisia, Saharan Platform) have yielded rich fossil assemblages of both freshwater and brackish-marine invertebrates and vertebrates. The new discovered fauna indicates an Anisian-Lower Ladinian age for the Tejra section. Its lowermost part is considered as equivalent of Ouled Chebbi Formation, while the medium and upper parts are considered as equivalent of the Kirchaou Formation. Both sedimentological characteristics and fossil assemblages indicate the increasing marine influences within the middle part of the section and the migration of brackish and freshwater fauna into the lacustrine/playa environment at the top. The marine fauna-rich interval of the Tejra section correlates well with the well-known Myophoria-rich carbonate stratigraphic marker confirming the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) major transgression well recorded eastward in the Tunisian Jeffara basin and in Libya. The use of this Ladinian stratigraphic event in addition to the Carnian carbonate transgressive events of the Jeffara escarpment outcrops was of great help for regional lithostratigraphic correlations between the Triassic outcropping series and those currently buried in Ghadames and Berkine basins. The age of the sandstones of “Trias Argilo-Greseux Inferieur” (TAGI) which forms the main oil and gas reservoir in the Saharan domain is attributed to the Anisian-Carnian and considered as coeval of Ouled Chebbi and Kirchaou Formations of the Dahar escarpment. An updated synthetic stratigraphic chart is proposed for the Triassic of Saharan Platform domain on the basis of the compilation of the new obtained results and the subsurface data taken from published literature.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu26 citations 26 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2017 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2016 FrancePublisher:Elsevier BV Akrout, Dhaou; Cobbold, Peter R.; Ahmadi, Riadh; Mercier, Eric; Montacer, Mabrouk;The Gulf of Mexico and the offshore Campos and Santos basins of Brazil provide good examples of sub-salt detachments, by shearing in the presence of overpressure. We have developed new physical models of such situations, including layers of ductile silicone putty, which simulated an evaporite, and fluid overpressure in porous brittle layers. We studied two configurations, in which the maximal overpressure was either beneath a single ductile layer of silicone (simulating salt), or between two such layers of silicone (simulating an evaporite sequence). The results of our analogue modelling showed that detachment faults appeared and persisted at the bases of the ductile layers, even though some ductile deformation occurred simultaneously within these layers. For models where maximal overpressure was between two ductile layers, detachment occurred mainly at the base of the upper silicone layer. On comparing our models with structures in the Gulf of Mexico or offshore Brazil, we find strong similarities, which lead us to suspect that detachment is indeed possible at the base of an evaporite sequence in nature. This conclusion has strong implications, not only for the understanding of petroleum systems, but also for better management of petroleum productionin sedimentary basins. International audience
HAL-Rennes 1; Mémoir... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum Geology; Hal-DiderotArticle . 2016Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesbronze 4 citations 4 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert HAL-Rennes 1; Mémoir... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum Geology; Hal-DiderotArticle . 2016Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2016 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2007Publisher:Elsevier BV Authors: Adel Arfaoui; Mabrouk Montacer; Fekri Kamoun; Adel Rigane;Adel Arfaoui; Mabrouk Montacer; Fekri Kamoun; Adel Rigane;Abstract Sedimentary rock samples from the Ypresian Basin, in central-northern Tunisia, were analyzed by two well-proven organic geochemical methods: Rock-Eval (RE) pyrolysis and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) analysis. These techniques were uses to obtain independent parameters on organic matter composition, its thermal maturity, and environment of deposition. This study reveals a close concordance between Rock-Eval pyrolysis data and polycyclic biomarkers parameters such as hopanes and steranes. RE pyrolysis in conjunction with GC–MS analysis show that the Ypresian Basin sediments contain a variable but notable organic-rich facies during the Ypresian and prove an unequivocal evidence for Type-II organic matter, which lies dominantly prior to the peak stage of the conventional oil window (end of diagenesis-beginning of catagenesis). The case study from the Ypresian Basin shows that these methods remain undoubtedly suitable for a good assessment of the petroleum potential of source rocks and rapid geochemical characterization of sedimentary organic matter.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu24 citations 24 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Marine and Petroleum... arrow_drop_down Marine and Petroleum GeologyArticle . 2007 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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