Effect of regional slopes on local structure and exploration of tilted paleo-highs
Prospects for discovering local highs in old petroleum-producing regions have by now been substantially exhausted. Hence it is of great importance at this stage to seek non-anticlinal accumulations of hydrocarbons, including those in traps genetically associated with tilted paleo-highs, often represented in the modern structural plan by structural noses and terraces. Appropriate exploration for such types of deposits may soon become important in Ciscaucasia and other old petroleum-producing regions. Consequently, problems of the scientific basis for prospecting paleo-highs tilted in the modern structural plan, and developing procedures both for revealing and also for assessing their expression in the structural plan during different stages of geological history, and establishing the time and depth of changes in aspect, will become extremely topical. In order to discover possible local highs and to study their features within the margins of the platformal basins and the platformal edges of the marginal troughs, the authors use the method of removing the effect of the regional slope on the local structural plan. This paper describes this method. 13 references.
- Research Organization:
- All-Union Research Geological-Exploration Petroleum Institute (VNIGNI), Moscow (USSR)
- OSTI ID:
- 5204748
- Journal Information:
- Int. Geol. Rev.; (United States), Vol. 28:6; Other Information: Translated from Izvestiya AN SSSR, seriya geologicheskaya; No.8, 98-106(1986)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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