Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins: Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential

Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins: Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential deals with the evolution and tectonic significance of the Triassic evaporite rocks in the Alpine orogenic system and the Neogene basins in the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, and the western Mediterranean. As the nature of the Triassic evaporite sequences, the varied diapiric structures they feed, and the occurrence of hydrocarbons suggest that the Triassic evaporites represent an efficient system to trap hydrocarbons, this book explores the topic with a wide swath, also devoting content to a relatively unexplored topic, the mobilization and deformation of the Triassic salt in the westernmost Tethys (i.e. Iberia and North Africa) during the subsequent Alpine orogenic processes. The book includes an introductory chapter on the regional tectonic setting of the Iberia and North Africa region since the Triassic, including the reconstruction of the Tethys western domain, plate reconstructions and relative motion between the Iberian and African plates, Alpine orogens, and major sedimentary basins. Other topics covered include salt tectonic processes, experimental modeling, and observations, terminology, and structures formed under extension and subsequent shortening. The book is the go-to guide for both salt and shale tectonic researchers and those working in the hydrocarbon exploration industry. Presents the first reference book to cover salt and shale tectonics of Permo-Triassic period rocksFeatures case studies from various places in the Iberian Peninsula and the western Mediterranean (i.e., Pyrenees, Gibraltar Arc, Gulf of Cadiz, the Algarve, and more)Integrates field observations and models developed in universities with highly technical and advanced subsurface studies developed by the petroleum industry INDICE: 1. Foreword 2. Introduction Part I: Modelling Salt Tectonic Processes 3. An overview of allochthonous salt tectonics 4. Petroleum systems in salt provinces 5. The Permo-Triassic Chronostratigraphic Scales-Framework for Ordering Events 6. Triassic - early Jurassic palaeogeography of the western Tethyan region 7. The internal structure of the Zechstein salt and related drilling risks in the northern Netherlands 8. Paleogeography, chronostratigraphy and stratigraphic correlations of the Triassic Basins Part II: Alpine Folded Belts 9. The Southern Pyrenees 10. Salt and strike-slip wrench tectonics as main drivers of the Basque-Cantabrian Basin's structural evolution 11. The Gibraltar Arc and the Gulf of Cadiz 12. The role of the Triassic evaporites underneath the Alpine foreland 13. The Eastern Alps (the Haselgebirge in the Calcareous Alps) 14. Carnian Evaporite Basin and Salt Tectonics in the Eastern: Balkan-Forebalkan Region of Bulgaria 15. Offshore Croatia: Burrano Salt 16. The Ionian FTB in central and southern Albania: a petroleum province involving Triassic evaporites Part III: Atlantic Margins 17. Salt tectonics of the Scotian margin, eastern Canada 18. Algarve Basin 19. Peniche Basin (Portugal) 20. Offshore Morocco (E, central Atlantic) 21. Offshore Cantabria, N Spain 22. Salt tectonics of the Norwegian Barents Sea and Northeast Greenland Part IV: Zechstein Basin 23. Palaeogeographic evolution of latest Permian and Triassic salt basins in North West Europe 24. Composition, tectonics and hydrocarbon significance of Zechstein (Upper Permian) salt on the UK and Norwegian continental shelves 25. Structure and evolution of the Glueckstadt Graben in relation to the other post-Permian sub-basins of the Central European Basin System 26. The Zechstein Basin of the Netherlands and Germany 27. Permian Salt Basins in the Polish Trough Part V: North Africa 28. Styles of salt tectonics in central Tunisia: an overview 29. Salt tectonics of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco 30. Development of a late Triassic-early Jurassic Mega-evaporite Basin on the Saharan Platform, North Africa

• ISBN: 978-0-12-809417-4
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés