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Subsidence and analysis of subsidencein sedimentary basins
March 2, 2011
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Vertical crustal controls on sedimentary basins
• Difference in density and thickness between oceanic and continental crust
• Thermal history of continental and oceanic crust• Flexure• Combinations of these
Subsidence dominated bythermal contractive cooling:- Intracratonic basins- Aulacogens (failed rift arms)- Protoceanic rifts- Miogeoclinal prisms- Continental Embankments- Young ocean basins- Pull-apart basins- Inter- and intra arc basins
Subsidence controlled largelyby lithospheric flexure:- oceanic trenches- slope basins- forearc basins- broken foreland basins- downwarped basins along
transpressional faults- remnant ocean basins
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Subsidence Analysis: determination of vertical crustal behavior of basement through time, independent of load and isostatic adjustment
How is subsidence determined?process of “backstripping” a stratigraphic section
1) decompact each stratigraphic layer, beginning with youngest2) remove layer from section3) calculate amount of isostatic adjustment of basement by
removal of sedimentary layer4) ‘hang’ new vertical position of basement on paleobathymetry curve
Data needed to conduct subsidence analysis:1) stratigraphic section, including:
a) lithology of stratigraphic unitsb) thickness of stratigraphic unitsc) age of stratigraphic unitsd) paleobathymetry of stratigraphic units
2) some way to decompact sediment to estimate original thicknesses3) estimates on crustal densities of mantle, crustal section, and water column4) estimates on sea level changes, since this affects bathymetry
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Paleobathymetric zonesAssigning paleobathymetry to strata in a well
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decompaction
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