Seismic architecture of a Miocene isolated carbonate platform and associated off-platform strata (Central Luconia Province, offshore Malaysia)

Rankey, Eugene C.; Schlaich, Markus; Mokhtar, Sofiyah; Ghon, George; Ali, Syed Haroon; Pöppelreiter, Michael

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“…In Central Luconia, structural highs and lows are suggested to control carbonate growth distribution. While some of the buildups are characterized by a pinnacle shape with foraminiferal‐rich facies (Ali & Abolins, 1999; Bracco‐Gartner et al, 2004; Rankey et al, 2019; Zampetti et al, 2004) others developed as a platform type on structural palaeo‐highs, reaching large sizes (~200 km 2 ), (Ali & Abolins, 1999; Vahrenkamp et al, 2004), dominated by coral facies and with extremely high porosity of up to 43%.…”

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“…On the other hand, the grabens were the locus of interplatform seaways (Mathew et al, 2020) and siliciclastic deposition (Figure 9a). Syn‐depositional faulting had a dominant influence on early carbonate growth (Briais et al, 1993; Bachtel et al, 2004; Hall, 1996; Hutchison, 1989; Jamaludin et al, 2014; James, 1983; Mat‐Zin, 1997; Rankey et al, 2019; Ting et al, 2012), especially in the Early Middle Miocene. Within the FX platform domain, 14 isolated carbonate buildups with average dimensions of 3 × 4 km 2 started growing at ~15.5 Ma (Figures 5j and 9a).…”

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“…The Early Miocene rifting of the South China Sea resulted in different crustal domains, fragmented into NNE–SSW horsts and grabens (Figure 1c; Koša, 2015). Strike‐slip faulting formed en‐echelon pre‐Miocene basement highs (Bachtel et al, 2004; Briais, Patriat, & Tapponnier, 1993; Hall, 1996; Hutchison, 1989;Jamaludin, Pubellier, & Menier, 2014; James, 1983;Mat‐Zin, 1997;Rankey et al, 2019; Ting et al, 2012). The Early Miocene rifting of the South China Sea resulted in multiple horst structures, which became the substratum for the growth of carbonates in Luconia (Ting et al, 2018).…”

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The internal architecture and evolution of isolated carbonate buildups rely on multiple forcing factors, including tectonics and eustatic fluctuations. These parameters control the developmental phases of carbonate buildups such as initiation, growth, and termination stages, and give insights into other morphologic patterns such as backstepping and exposure events. The current study shows the evolution of a Middle Miocene isolated carbonate buildup of Central Luconia in the southern South China Sea, and describes it from large‐scale to very fine detail (km to mm) utilizing newly acquired (2016) 3D seismic data along with core lithofacies and thin sections. The buildup morphology and seismic facies are linked to core facies that can help to uncover the complex development of the carbonate platform. Core‐seismic calibration was used to create maps illustrating carbonate depositional settings for each stratigraphic unit. Here, we identified five seismic units that constitute the main stratigraphic stages of buildup development: (a) initiation as several isolated buildups, (b) coalescence, progradation, and aggradation, (c) aggradation and retrogradation associated with minor backstepping events and major karstification events, (d) retrogradation associated with major backstepping events, and (e) drowning stage. Our results demonstrate that Miocene reefal evolution and buildup architecture in Central Luconia were distinctly affected by diverse endogenic and exogenic processes. The initiation of localized carbonate growth appears to be strongly controlled by the morphology of the pre‐carbonate basement of Central Luconia where the SSW–NNE horst and graben structures were inherited from the poly‐stage opening of the South China Sea during the Early Miocene. Furthermore, sea‐level fluctuations, local and regional tectonic events during the Middle Miocene controlled the rates of accommodation changes, which directly impacted the stratigraphic architecture of the platform. The detailed seismic and sedimentological study documented in this work will benefit the understanding of the paleogeographic and stratigraphic evolution of carbonate buildups in the Luconia region of SE Asia, and in the current and future exploration for substantial conventional resources.

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“…On the isolated platforms, there are three different regions: restricted platform, carbonate bank and open platform. The presence of carbonate bank is the distinctive feature of the isolated platform (Purkis et al, 2014;Rankey et al, 2019). This carbonate bank is characterized by a fair-weather wave base, and it can be also be divided into two parts: high energy bank, which is above the fair-weather wave base with mostly grainstone deposits, and the intermittent high energy bank, which is near the fair-weather wave base and most of the deposits are essentially packstones (Jin et al, 2013;Guo et al, 2019).…”

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Depositional model for mixed carbonate-clastic sediments in the Middle Cambrian Lower Zhangxia Formation, Xiaweidian, North China

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“…Some of the best examples of such potential are recorded in the South China Sea (Neuhaus et al, 2004;Ding et al, 2014;Hutchison, 2014), Kazakhstan (Collins et al, 2006;Kenter et al, 2008;Collins et al, 2016), the Middle East (Alsharhan, 1987), the Brazilian Coast (Buarque et al, 2017), the Barents Sea (Blendinger et al, 1997;Elvebakk et al, 2002;Nordaunet-Olsen, 2015;Alves, 2016), amongst others. It is estimated that reserves of about 50 billion barrels of oil equivalent are accumulated within these structures around the world (Burgess et al, 2013) including fields such as the Luconia Province and the Malampaya Field in the South China Sea (Neuhaus et al, 2004;Zampetti et al, 2004;Rankey et al, 2019), the Karachaganak gas-condensate-oil field and the Tengiz field in the Pre-Caspian Basin, Kazakhastan (Elliott et al, 1998;Collins et al, 2006;Borromeo et al, 2010;Katz et al, 2010).…”

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Distribution and growth styles of isolated carbonate platforms as a function of fault propagation

Espejel

Alves

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2019

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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Fault control on the position and distribution of isolated carbonate platforms is investigated in Northwest Australia using high quality 3D seismic and borehole data from the Bonaparte Basin. Specifically, we address the relationship between carbonate productivity and fault growth so as to understand what the primary controls on the growth of isolated carbonate platforms are. Throw-depth (T-Z) and throw-distance (T-D) profiles for normal faults suggest they formed fault segments that were linked at different times in the study area. This caused differential vertical movements: some of the normal faults have propagated to the surface, while others have upper tips 19 to 530 ms two-way-time below the sea floor, with the largest values comprising faults underneath isolated carbonate platforms. As a result, four distinct zones correlate with variable geometries and sizes of carbonate platforms, which are a function of topographic relief generated by underlying propagating faults. Some relay ramps form a preferred location for the initiation and development of carbonate platforms, together with adjacent structural highs. Due to the complex effect of fault propagation to the palaeosurface, and soft-linkage through relay ramps, three distinct models are proposed. Two models explain carbonate platform growth and one explains changes in its internal structure: (1) in the first model, fault throw is larger than carbonate productivity; (2) the second model considers fault throw to be equal or less than carbonate productivity; and (3) the third model,

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Seismic architecture of a Miocene isolated carbonate platform and associated off-platform strata (Central Luconia Province, offshore Malaysia)

Cited by 41 publications

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Seismic stratigraphy and sedimentology of a Miocene carbonate platform in Luconia, South China Sea

Seismic stratigraphy and sedimentology of a Miocene carbonate platform in Luconia, South China Sea

Depositional model for mixed carbonate-clastic sediments in the Middle Cambrian Lower Zhangxia Formation, Xiaweidian, North China

Distribution and growth styles of isolated carbonate platforms as a function of fault propagation

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