Rifts and Passive Margins

Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems

Michal Nemčok

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781107025837
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316474204
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

Rifts and passive margins are extremely important for the petroleum industry, as they are areas of high sedimentation and can contain significant oil and gas resources. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of rifts and passive margins as a whole. It synthesises in one volume the existing information devoted to specific aspects of these vitally important hydrocarbon habitats. This collection of state-of-the-art information on the topic facilitates the better use of this knowledge to assess the risks of exploring and operating in these settings and the development of systematic and predictive hydrocarbon screening tools. The book will be invaluable for a broad range of readers, from advanced geology students and researchers to exploration geoscientists to exploration managers exploring for and developing hydrocarbon resources in analogous settings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Basic description of structural styles in rift and passive margin settings, including extension directions...
• 2 Mechanics of rifting and transition to drift phases
• 3 Determination of unstretched continental, thinned continental, proto-oceanic, and oceanic crustal boundaries
• 4 Determination of timing of rift and continental breakup events
• 5 The role of lithospheric composition and compositional variations in evolving rift margin architectural development...
• 6 The role of preexisting anisotropy in structural styles of rifts and passive margins
• 7 The role of syn-extensional deposition and erosion in evolving structural styles of rifts and passive margins...
• 8 Fluid flow systems associated with oceanic hot spots, oceanic transforms, continental transforms, and rifts
• 9 The role of pre-rift heat flow in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
• 10 The role of structural and stratigraphic architecture in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
• 11 The role of syn-rift deposition and erosion in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
• 12 The role of deformation in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
• 13 The role of fluid flow in thermal regimes of rifts and passive margins
• 14 Introduction to hydrocarbons in rift and passive margin settings
• 15 Models of source rock distribution, maturation, and expulsion in rift and passive margin settings
• 16 Models of reservoir quality distribution
• 17 Sealing characteristics
• 18 Models of hydrocarbon migration
• 19 Trapping Styles
• 20 Hydrocarbon Preservation
• References
• Index