Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Geology of the Middle EastThe wealth of petroleum has made the Middle East one of the most actively explored regions of the world. The volume of geological, geophysical and geochemical data collected by the petroleum industry in recent decades is enormous. The Middle East may be a unique region in the world where the volume of subsurface data and information exceeds that based on surface outcrop.This book reviews the tectonic and geological history of the Middle East and the regional hydrocarbon potential on a country by country basis in the context of current ideas developed through seismic and sequence stratigraphy and incorporating the ideas of global sea level change.Subsurface data have been used as much as possible to amplify the descriptions.The paleogeographic approach provides a means to view the area as a whole. While the country by country approach inevitably leads to some repetition, it enhances the value of the volume as a teaching tool and underlines some of the changing lithologies within formations carrying the same name. |
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Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Geology of the Middle East A. S. Alsharhan,A. E. M. Nairn No preview available - 1997 |
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Abu Dhabi Albian Alsharhan anhydrite Anticline Arab Arabian Gulf argillaceous limestone Asmari Bahrain basal basin beds Beydoun bioclastic calcareous Cambrian carbonate Cenomanian central chert clastic conglomerate continental cross-bedded deposited dolomite dolomitic limestone Early eastern environment Eocene evaporites facies faults Field fine-grained fold formation consists grainstone Group Huqf hydrocarbon interbedded intercalations Iran Iraq Jordan Jurassic Khuff Kuwait lagoonal Late Cretaceous lime mudstone limestone LITHOLOGY lower Maastrichtian marine marl marly mation Member Middle East Miocene Mishrif mudstone northern offshore oil and gas Oligocene Oman oolitic Ordovician outcrop overlain overlying packstone Paleocene Paleozoic peloidal Permian porosity Qatar region reproduced by kind reservoir sand sandstone sandy Saudi Arabia seal sedimentary sediments sequence shale shallow shallow-marine shelf Shuaiba siltstone silty Silurian source rocks southeastern southern stone stratigraphic structures Sub-basin subsurface Syria tectonic Tertiary thickness thin tion Triassic trough Turkey unconformity unit upper wackestone Wadi Yemen Zagros Zone
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