Structural control of oil and gas deposits in southwest Gissar and Tadzhik depression

Conference · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993 · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States)

OSTI ID:6915848

Chitalin, A F; Irinarkhova, N V; Stor, M A ^[1]

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1. Moscow State Univ. (Russian Federation)

Computer analysis of the space image (scale 1:1,000,000) has been done for the Surkhandar'ya part of the Tadzhik depression and southwest Gissar region using a program of automatic apportionment and statistical analysis of lineaments. The lineaments correspond to faults in the Paleozoic basement of the depression and to faults and joint systems in the overlying deformed Mesozoic-Cenozoic cover. Oil and gas deposits occur both in the crests of folds in the cover and in subthrust structures which occur at the intersection of different trends of lineaments. The deposits are localized in the zones of intersecting trends. We suggest that the migration of hydrocarbons from basement rocks toward the anticlinal culminations was controlled by the fault zones and joint systems. The most prospective areas are the zones of west-northwest and northwest extension which trend at right angles to the fold axes.

• OSTI ID: 6915848
• Report Number(s): CONF-9310237-; CODEN: AABUD2
• Journal Information: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States), Vol. 77:9; Conference: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) mid-continent section meeting, Amarillo, TX (United States), 10-12 Oct 1993; ISSN 0149-1423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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