<p>This study examines the correlation of Jurassic evaporites between the Gotnia Basin (which extends across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran), the Central Arabian Basin (which extends across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and UAE) and the rim separating them represented by Rimthan Arch, aiming to refine the understanding of their depositional and temporal frameworks. The dataset includes three-dimensional, pre-stack time-migrated seismic data, complemented by wireline logs and cores from wells penetrating the Bajocian to Kimmeridgian interval. This previously unpublished dataset provides a unique opportunity to correlate evaporite successions across the two basins and reconstruct the evolution of the margin that separated them. Facies along the studied depositional profile range from organic-rich, mud-dominated textures, basinal evaporites, turbidites, reefal framestones, grain shoals, to karstified tidal laminites and sabkha anhydrites. Both the basinal and sabkha evaporites serve as extensive, effective regional seals, directing hydrocarbon migration from source to reservoir and ensuring containment within stratigraphic and structural traps. Maximum regression surfaces along the margin, often capped by sabkha evaporites or karsts, are correlated with maximum regressive intervals within the basin, reflecting continuous basinal evaporite precipitation during periods of unconformity. The margin separating the two basins hosted a reef system, whose growth and subsequent demise played a pivotal role in controlling stratal architecture, sequence composition and basin isolation. This ultimately rendered the basinal and shelfal evaporites diachronous.</p>

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Regional advances in Arabian plate stratigraphy: implications for jurassic evaporites in Gotnia and Central Arabian Basin

  • Saad F. Al-Awwad,
  • Ahmed S. Al-Ghamdi,
  • Abdullah G. Al-Dhubeeb,
  • Jinying Zhou,
  • Goutam K. Nayak

摘要

This study examines the correlation of Jurassic evaporites between the Gotnia Basin (which extends across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran), the Central Arabian Basin (which extends across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and UAE) and the rim separating them represented by Rimthan Arch, aiming to refine the understanding of their depositional and temporal frameworks. The dataset includes three-dimensional, pre-stack time-migrated seismic data, complemented by wireline logs and cores from wells penetrating the Bajocian to Kimmeridgian interval. This previously unpublished dataset provides a unique opportunity to correlate evaporite successions across the two basins and reconstruct the evolution of the margin that separated them. Facies along the studied depositional profile range from organic-rich, mud-dominated textures, basinal evaporites, turbidites, reefal framestones, grain shoals, to karstified tidal laminites and sabkha anhydrites. Both the basinal and sabkha evaporites serve as extensive, effective regional seals, directing hydrocarbon migration from source to reservoir and ensuring containment within stratigraphic and structural traps. Maximum regression surfaces along the margin, often capped by sabkha evaporites or karsts, are correlated with maximum regressive intervals within the basin, reflecting continuous basinal evaporite precipitation during periods of unconformity. The margin separating the two basins hosted a reef system, whose growth and subsequent demise played a pivotal role in controlling stratal architecture, sequence composition and basin isolation. This ultimately rendered the basinal and shelfal evaporites diachronous.