鄂尔多斯盆地南部三叠系延长组湖相重力流沉积细粒岩及其油气地质意义

随着页岩油气勘探开发和相关领域研究的不断深入,细粒沉积物的搬运和沉积已成为当前沉积学研究的热点问题之一,但中国中生代湖泊环境中的泥质重力流沉积尚未引起应有的关注。通过岩心观察、薄片鉴定等手段及综合研究,分析了鄂尔多斯盆地晚三叠世湖相泥质重力流沉积特征,探讨了其形成机制与成因分类。鄂尔多斯盆地三叠系延长组湖相泥页岩结构类型多样,发育泥质块体流沉积、泥质碎屑流沉积、泥质浊流沉积和泥质异重流沉积等多种重力流沉积类型。按照泥质含量将重力流划分为砂质重力流、泥质重力流和混合重力流3种亚类,并根据成因将重力流划分为滑塌体、碎屑流、浊流及异重流等4种亚类;结合成因和泥质含量,将重力流沉积共划分为12种类型。滑塌岩、碎屑岩分布于三角洲前缘斜坡脚附近;浊积岩、异重岩广泛分布于三角洲斜坡至沉积中心。认为泥质沉积物可以在强水动力条件下搬运—沉积;重力流沉积细粒物质在湖相沉积中占据很大的比例;泥质重力流对泥页岩中的碎屑物质、黏土矿物及有机质的搬运和沉积起到重要作用,因而对于页岩油气的生烃、储集性能和压裂工艺研究具有重要意义。

A Marine or Continental Nature of the Deltas in the Early Cretaceous Lingshandao Formation--Evidences from Trace Elements

Objective A succession with well-developed soft-sediment deformation structures and well-exposed gravity-flow deposits in the Early Cretaceous Lingshandao Formation has caused considerable controversy on whether the nondisputed deltaic environment was marine or continental.This dispute cannot be solved by mere sedimentological analysis and,moreover,too few fossils are present to be decisive.

Evidence for fault activity during accumulation of the Furongian Chaomidian Formation(Shandong Province,China)

The Late Cambrian(Furongian)Chaomidian Formation accumulated in an epeiric sea that covered a large part of the North China Plate and extended from China to Korea.The depositional environment of the formation is commonly considered to have been affected by storms that broke up numerous limestone layers,but that was tectonically quiet.It is here argued,however,that some features of the formation-more in particular the many dozens of breccia layers and the occurrence of slid-down limestone blocks that are embedded in autochthonous oolites-can be explained satisfactorily only if some significant fault activity took place during its accumulation.The faulting may have been due to differential loading and subsidence,but an endogenic origin seems more probable.This implies that the structural history of the study area in Shandong Province may need re-consideration.

The control of Pleistocene palaeogeography on the distribution of sandy patches in a silty Holocene lagoon(central Netherlands)

The brackish lagoon in the central part of The Netherlands was closed by a dike in 1932 and gradually changed into a lake.Parts of this lake were reclaimed and the surficial sediments of one of the polders(Noordoostpolder),reclaimed in 1942,has been investigated in detail by mapping of the walls of some1500 km of drainage ditches approx.1.4 m deep.It appeared that the sediments consist of an uncommonly large amount of silt,to different degrees mixed with reworked peat that had developed during the Holocene transgression.Some sandy deposits occur locally,at places that are at first sight distributed in a haphazard way.The various sandy patches have different characteristics(grain-size distribution,rounding of the grains,mineral composition).These sands cannot have been introduced from the sea,nor can they have been supplied by the rivers that discharged into the lagoon,so they must have a local origin.It is found that several types of Pleistocene sandy or diamictic deposits below the Holocene peat and lagoonal sediments had an irregular topography and became eroded during the Holocene by wave activity.This resulted in sandy deposits around these Pleistocene highs,which consisted of glacial tills(boulder clays),river dunes(formed by aeolian activity along rivers under dry permafrost conditions)and coversand ridges,formed by aeolian activity in a belt between the ice margin and the more distal loess belt.This finding implies that palaegeographical interpretations of local grain-size anomalies in a specific deposit should not only consider facies changes due to changes in the sediment supply,but should also consider local erosion leading to the exposure of previously deposited material with a divergent composition.

Lagoonal carbonate deposition preceding rifting-related uplift:evidence from the Bartonian-Priabonian(Eocene)of the northwestern Gulf of Suez(Egypt)

Sedimentary successions in the northwestern Gulf of Suez provide important clues to the understanding of the geological evolution of NE Africa during the middle and late Eocene.This study focuses on detailed facies analyses in order to characterize the depositional environments and system tracts of the Bartonian-Priabonian succession cropping out in this area.Bartonian-Priabonian carbonate deposits in five stratigraphic sections constitute,from base to top,the Gebel Hof,Observatory,Sannur,Qurn,and Wadi Hof Formations.These formations contain four local assemblage zones of larger benthic foraminifers.Analyses of litho-,bio-,and microfacies in the succession resulted in the recognition of 12 lithofacies types.These lithofacies are represented by packages of lime-mudstones,wackestones,packstones,pack-to grainstones,grainstones,rudstones,boundstones and dolomites.These lithofacies have been grouped into four geneticallyrelated facies associations that represent,respectively,tidal flats/shallow subtidal,restricted-shelf/lagoonal,shoal bar,and outer-shelf lagoon/reefal depositional environments in a downslope shallow-marine inner-ramp setting.The vertical transitions of these facies associations,representing facies changes through time,imply fluctuations of the regional sea level.The two peaks in the Bartonian correspond to well-known global eustatic sea-level rises;the pronounced Priabonian regression must be ascribed to the known global eustatic sea-level fall in combination with regional tectonic activity.The facies distribution suggests that the study area was located in the direct vicinity of some islands during the Bartonian-Priabonian.