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Diversity of depositional architecture and sandbody distribution of sublacustrine fans during forced regression: A case study of Paleogene Middle Sha 3 Member in Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, East China

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PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume 50, Issue 4, Pages 894-908

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KEAI PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1876-3804(23)60436-7

Keywords

Bohai Bay Basin; Dongying Sag; Paleogene Shahejie Formation; sublacustrine fan; hyperpycnal flow; gravity flow; base-level; depositional architecture

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This study investigated the depositional architecture of sublacustrine fans and the impact of fourth-order base-level changes on their growth. It was found that sublacustrine fans were mainly caused by hyperpycnal flow during base-level rise, while slump-induced fans increased during base-level fall. The morphology of the fans transformed from significantly channelized to skirt-like during the base-level change. The study provides a geological foundation for the fine development of sublacustrine fan reservoirs.
Currently, the differences in gravity flow deposits within different systems tracts in continental lacustrine basins are not clear. Taking the middle submember of the third member of Paleogene Shahejie Formation (Sha 3 Member) in the Shishen 100 area of the Dongying Sag in the Bohai Bay Basin as an example, the depositional architecture of sublacustrine fans during forced regression and the impact of the fourth-order base-level changes on their growth were investigated using cores, well logs and 3D seismic data. Sublacustrine fans were mainly caused by hyperpycnal flow during the fourth-order base-level rise, while the proportion of slump-induced sublacustrine fans gradually increased during the late fourth-order base-level fall. From rising to falling of the fourth-order base-level, the extension distance of channels inside hyperpycnal-fed sublacustrine fans reduced progressively, resulting in the transformation in their morphology from a significantly channelized fan to a skirt-like fan. Furthermore, the depositional architecture of distributary channel complexes in sublacustrine fans changed from vertical aggradation to lateral migration, and the lateral size of individual channel steadily decreased. The lobe complex's architectural patterns evolved from compensational stacking of lateral migration to aggradational stacking, and the lateral size of individual lobe steadily grew. This study deepens the understanding of depositional features of gravity flow in high-frequency sequence stratigraphy and provides a geological foundation for the fine development of sublacustrine fan reservoirs.

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