Petroleum Systems of the Tethyan Region

This volume is intended to generate ideas for the future exploration of immature and mature basins across the Tethyan Region. From the Paleozoic to the Cenozoic, the Arabian Plate, North Africa and parts of Southern Eurasia, were on the margin of a series of Tethys seaways, Proto-Tethys, Paleo-Tethys, and Neo-Tethys. These areas evolved together and as a result they have numerous similarities in their tectono-stratigraphic history and petroleum systems. These similarities could be used to extrapolate proven petroleum systems to underexplored areas and lead to hydrocarbon discoveries. The back cover illustrates the countries that evolved along the Tethyan Region in their present day location. Countries covered in this volume are outlined.
The Evolution of the Tethys Region throughout the Phanerozoic: A Brief Tectonic Reconstruction
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Published:January 01, 2014
Abstract
The Tethyan region is a major petroleum province. The paleogeographic position and tectonic history is a major control on sedimentation across the region, and this has influenced the sequestration of hydrocarbons in the region. The North African-Arabian plate evolved along the Tethyan margins (Proto-Tethys, Paleo-Tethys, Neo-Tethys) from Pre-Cambrian to Recent. Paleogeographic maps have been reconstructed for selected time intervals: Cambrian, Late Ordovician, Early Devonian, Early Permian, Permian-Triassic boundary, Norian, Callovian, Aptian, Cretaceous-Cenozoic boundary, and Late Eocene. For each time interval both the general picture of the major plate tectonic configuration and a detail of the paleogeography and paleoenvironment of...
- Aptian
- basins
- Callovian
- Cambrian
- Cenozoic
- Cretaceous
- Devonian
- Eocene
- Gondwana
- Jurassic
- K-T boundary
- Lower Cretaceous
- Lower Devonian
- lower Paleocene
- Lower Permian
- Lower Triassic
- marine environment
- mass extinctions
- Mediterranean region
- Mesozoic
- Middle Jurassic
- Neotethys
- Norian
- Ordovician
- Paleocene
- Paleogene
- paleogeography
- Paleotethys
- Paleozoic
- Pangaea
- passive margins
- Permian
- Permian-Triassic boundary
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- Phanerozoic
- plate tectonics
- reconstruction
- rift zones
- sedimentation
- stratigraphic boundary
- terranes
- terrestrial environment
- Tertiary
- Tethys
- traps
- Triassic
- Upper Cretaceous
- upper Eocene
- Upper Ordovician
- Upper Permian
- Upper Triassic