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Submit a ProposalSalt Systems of the Earth
 | Distribution, Tectonic and Kinematic History, Salt-Naphtids Interrelations, Discharge Foci, Recycling By Galina Belenitskaya Copyright: 2019 | Status: Published ISBN: 9781119479055 | Hardcover | 686 pages Price: $225 USD  |
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The most comprehensive and in-depth study of the formation, practical applications, history, and natural recycling of salt, including the global and geological implications of its formative process, natural movement, and development in the Earth’s subsurface.
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Scientists in natural and Earth sciences, petroleum engineers, anthropologists, drilling engineers, reservoir engineers, students and professors working in natural and Earth sciences
Scientists in natural and Earth sciences, petroleum engineers, anthropologists, drilling engineers, reservoir engineers, students and professors working in natural and Earth sciences
Description
Like water, salt is one of the most commonplace items in our everyday lives. From the omnipresent shaker that you see on every table in every restaurant, to the ocean water we swim in, salt is something that we rarely think about. But there is much more to the story of salt than most people think. Not only is salt a natural resource that must be captured and refined for public consumption, but “salt domes,” large deposits of salt that form under the ground, are important for finding and drilling for petroleum and natural gas. Salt is so important that, in ancient times, it was sometimes used as a currency in various cultures around the world, and it has been used as a food preservative, long before refrigeration was invented. Salt is something we rarely think about, but it is one of the most important natural resources that exists.
This is the first integrated study of salt’s global development in the Earth’s subsurface, its tectonic history and kinematic evolution, “live” salt-naphtide interconnections, and their geological recycling. The Earth’s salt is shown as a peculiar umbilical thread in the analysis of numerous geological processes of salt formation, transformation, migration, discharge and regeneration, and their association with hydrocarbons. Presented here is the science of salt, including the active salt bodies’ “live” in Earth’s subsurface, their fate and influence over the other geological processes, including grandiose systems of kinetically interrelated allochthonous nappe-like and sub-vertical bodies formed by the migrating salt. Also included are a description of sub-conformable sheet-like salt bodies formed not by the evaporation but by emigration of buried brine-salt masses and their discharge at new, younger stratigraphic levels, a description of a phenomenon of the “halo-volcanism” due to depth breakthroughs and explosive discharges of the hydrocarbon-brine-salt masses, an examination of the over-diapir surface and brine lakes with fluctuating levels, and many other things. The book provides new interpretations of numerous issues reflecting the salt “life” manifestations and gives a key to a broad circle of the geological enigmas, from global events like the Messinian crisis in the Mediterranean to Biblical legends and enigmas of the Dead Sea-lake.
Whether you are a scientist or student working in the natural or Earth sciences, a geologist, an anthropologist, a petroleum engineer, a petrophysicist, or any other engineer or student working in petroleum engineering, this groundbreaking work is a must-have. Perfect for any scientist or engineer’s library, this volume can be a must-read page-turner or a valuable reference work.
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Like water, salt is one of the most commonplace items in our everyday lives. From the omnipresent shaker that you see on every table in every restaurant, to the ocean water we swim in, salt is something that we rarely think about. But there is much more to the story of salt than most people think. Not only is salt a natural resource that must be captured and refined for public consumption, but “salt domes,” large deposits of salt that form under the ground, are important for finding and drilling for petroleum and natural gas. Salt is so important that, in ancient times, it was sometimes used as a currency in various cultures around the world, and it has been used as a food preservative, long before refrigeration was invented. Salt is something we rarely think about, but it is one of the most important natural resources that exists.
This is the first integrated study of salt’s global development in the Earth’s subsurface, its tectonic history and kinematic evolution, “live” salt-naphtide interconnections, and their geological recycling. The Earth’s salt is shown as a peculiar umbilical thread in the analysis of numerous geological processes of salt formation, transformation, migration, discharge and regeneration, and their association with hydrocarbons. Presented here is the science of salt, including the active salt bodies’ “live” in Earth’s subsurface, their fate and influence over the other geological processes, including grandiose systems of kinetically interrelated allochthonous nappe-like and sub-vertical bodies formed by the migrating salt. Also included are a description of sub-conformable sheet-like salt bodies formed not by the evaporation but by emigration of buried brine-salt masses and their discharge at new, younger stratigraphic levels, a description of a phenomenon of the “halo-volcanism” due to depth breakthroughs and explosive discharges of the hydrocarbon-brine-salt masses, an examination of the over-diapir surface and brine lakes with fluctuating levels, and many other things. The book provides new interpretations of numerous issues reflecting the salt “life” manifestations and gives a key to a broad circle of the geological enigmas, from global events like the Messinian crisis in the Mediterranean to Biblical legends and enigmas of the Dead Sea-lake.
Whether you are a scientist or student working in the natural or Earth sciences, a geologist, an anthropologist, a petroleum engineer, a petrophysicist, or any other engineer or student working in petroleum engineering, this groundbreaking work is a must-have. Perfect for any scientist or engineer’s library, this volume can be a must-read page-turner or a valuable reference work.
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Supplementary Data
• Treats salt, for the first time, as an important, large-scale natural formation that develops through the Earth’s crust to a considerable depth
• Reviews the fate and evolution of salt bodies, including their interactions with naphtids and many other geological processes
• Covers the practical applications of the study of salt, offering a valuable and groundbreaking research for the scientific and engineering communities
• Is a valuable textbook for students and professors, not only as a textbook, but as a general reference guide for veteran engineers and scientists working in the field
• Treats salt, for the first time, as an important, large-scale natural formation that develops through the Earth’s crust to a considerable depth
• Reviews the fate and evolution of salt bodies, including their interactions with naphtids and many other geological processes
• Covers the practical applications of the study of salt, offering a valuable and groundbreaking research for the scientific and engineering communities
• Is a valuable textbook for students and professors, not only as a textbook, but as a general reference guide for veteran engineers and scientists working in the field
Author / Editor Details
Galina Belenitskaya, PhD, is Chief Research Scientist at the Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), in St. Petersburg, Russia and has worked there since 1972. She has a doctorate in geological and mineralogical sciences from the Leningrad School of Mines. She is a leading expert in salt geology and litho-geodynamics of natural gas. She is an active member of the International Academy of Mineral Resources, the Russian Mineralogical Society, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and the Russian Science Federation. She has authored over 200 scientific publication, including 20 monographs.
Galina Belenitskaya, PhD, is Chief Research Scientist at the Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), in St. Petersburg, Russia and has worked there since 1972. She has a doctorate in geological and mineralogical sciences from the Leningrad School of Mines. She is a leading expert in salt geology and litho-geodynamics of natural gas. She is an active member of the International Academy of Mineral Resources, the Russian Mineralogical Society, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and the Russian Science Federation. She has authored over 200 scientific publication, including 20 monographs.
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Table of Contents
PART 1 Salts in Earth-- Crust: Composition, Tectonic and
Kinematic History, Salt-Naphtide Parakinesis 11
1 Geological-Tectonic Review of World Salt-Bearing Basins 13
1.1 Introduction 13
1.2 Salt-Bearing Basins of Eurasia 25
1.2.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 25
1.2.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 31
1.2.2.1 Salt-Bearing Basins of Europe 31
1.2.2.2 Asian Salt-Bearing Basins 72
1.3 Salt-Bearing Basin of North America 105
1.3.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 105
1.3.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 107
1.4 Salt-Bearing Basins of South America 128
1.4.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 128
1.4.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 129
1.5 Salt-Bearing Basins of Africa and Arabia 136
1.5.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 136
1.5.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 138
1.6 Salt-Bearing Basins of Australia 154
1.6.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 154
1.6.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 156
1.7 Conclusion 162
2 Historical-Geodynamic Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the World-- Salt-Bearing Basins 163
2.1 Introduction 163
2.2 Fundamentals of the Geodynamic Analysis 164
2.2.1 Terminology 165
2.2.2 Geodynamic Classification 166
2.2.3 Geodynamic Types of Salt-Bearing Basins, their Diagnostic Indications and Lithogeodynamic
Models 171
2.3 On the Preservation of Salt Bodies and Information
Value of the Geologic Record 175
2.4 Neo-Geodynamic Salt-Bearing Basins of ‚ the ‚ World 177
2.4.1 Overview and Analysis 177
2.4.2 The General Picture of Placing Neo-Geodynamic
Salt-Bearing Basins in the Recent Kinematic
Structure of Earth (Analysis Results) 198
2.5 Geodynamic History of the Salt Accumulation 201
2.6 Patterns in the Geodynamic Placement of
Salt-Bearing Basins 213
2.6.1 Salt Accumulation Periodicity 214
2.6.2 Orderliness in the Spatial Placement of
Salt-Bearing Objects 214
2.6.3 Regional Features of the Salt-Bearing
Objects--‚¬„¢ Age Distribution 216
2.6.4 Geodynamic Specialization -- of Salt Accumulation ‚ Epochs 218
2.6.5 Geochemical Specialization -- of Salt
Accumulation Epochs 219
2.6.6 Inheritance in the Placement of
Salt-Bearing Objects 220
2.7 Conclusions 222
3 Kinematic History of the Salts in Earth-- Crust 227
3.1 Morpho-Kinematic Groups of Salt Bodies 227
3.2 Salt Bodies of the Salt-Tectonic Group 229
3.3 Salt Bodies of the Orthotectonic Group 236
3.3.1 Salt Behavior Under Conditions of Active
Tectonics 236
3.3.2 Morphotectonic Features of Salt Bodies in the
Nappe-Folded Areas 239
3.3.3 The Salt Prevalence in Folded Areas of
Various Ages 242
3.4 Kinematic Evolution of Salt Bodies in the Processes of
Tectonic Development 247
3.5 Problems Associated with the Formation of
Nappe-Like Salt Bodies 249
3.6 Conclusions 253
PART 2 Salt in the System of Injection Formations.
A ‚ Recycling Model of the Salt- and
Naftide-Accumulation 257
4 Earth-- Ascending Injection Systems and Injection
Sedimentary Formations 259
4.1 Participation Problem of the Ascending Discharges
in the Sedimentation 259
4.2 Ascending Discharges in Sedimentation Areas:
Objects, Typification 265
4.2.1 System of Injection Discharges 265
4.2.2 Fluids, their Discharge Foci, Influence Aureoles (The ‚ Fluid Group Proper) 267
4.2.3 Flowing Rock Masses and their Discharge Foci (Lithokinetic Group) 275
4.2.4 Parakineses of the Injection Discharges 278
4.3 The Recent Picture of Ascending Discharge Distribution 282
4.3.1 Occurrence of Recent Discharges 282
4.3.2 The Scale of a Recent Input of Injection Material
in the Depositional Environments 284
4.3.3 Geodynamic Environments of Recent Discharge
Foci Placement and their Endogenous Parameters 291
4.3.4 The Environment-Forming Role of Ascending
Discharges 295
4.4 Ecological and Sedimentary Consequences of the Recent Ascending Discharges 304
4.4.1 The Consequences of Fluid Discharges 305
4.4.2 The Consequences of Lithokinetic Discharges 311
4.4.3 General Model of the Injection-Depositional
Processes 313
4.4.4 A Coordinated Typification of Injection Discharges
and of their Injection-Depositional Derivatives 315
4.5 Sedimentary Consequences of Past Ascending
Discharges 319
4.5.1 Sedimentary Derivatives and Indications
of the Fluid Paleo-Discharges 320
4.5.2 Sedimentary Derivatives and Features of
Lithokinetic Paleo-Discharges 326
4.5.3 Injection-Depositional Parageneses 327
4.5.4 Regional Examples of the Injection-Depositional Formations 328
4.6 Combination of the Injection-Depositional Sediment
Types with Background Ones 335
4.7 Conclusions. Expanded Option of a Classification of Sedimentogenesis Types 335
5 Regeneration (Recycling) Salt Accumulation Model 341
5.1 Status of the Salt Origin Problem 341
5.2 The Substance of the Regeneration Model and Examples
of its Implementation 346
5.3 Geological Prerequisites of the Model Implementation 348
5.3.1 The Material Prerequisites 349
5.3.2 The Geodynamic and Landscape Prerequisites 350
5.4 The Tectono-Kinematic Succession and the Brine-Salt
Discharge Types 352
5.5 Sedimentation-Accumulation Consequences of Brine-Salt Discharges 356
5.5.1 General Succession of Processes in
Sedimentation Basins 356
5.5.2 Chemogenic-Accumulative Processes (Interaction between Brines and the Basin Water) 360
5.5.3 Extrusive-Accumulative Processes
(Consequences of the Salt Mass Discharge) 364
5.5.4 Discharge Consequences in
Continental Environments 367
5.6 Discussion of the Regeneration Model 369
5.6.1 Evaluation of the Model-- Genetic Positions
and the Correspondence of the Real Salt-Bearing
Bodies Features with the Sedimentation
Consequences of the Model 369
5.6.2 Mineragenic Aspects of the Model 373
5.6.3 Evidence of the Regeneration Processes--‚¬„¢
Participation in the Formation of Salt Bodies 373
5.6.4 On the Causes of Underestimating the Role of Regeneration Processes in the Salt Accumulation 376
5.6.5 The Salt Dating Problem 378
5.6.6 On Some Contradictions of the Evaporite Salt Accumulation Models 379
5.6.7 On the Role of Exhalation Processes in the Salt Accumulation 380
5.7 On the Evolution of the Salt Accumulation Scale and Mechanism in Earth-- Geologic History 381
5.7.1 The Stratigraphic Placement of Salt 381
5.7.2 On the Interrelations of Various Salt Accumulation Mechanisms and Their Evolution in Earth-- Geologic ‚ History 383
5.8 Conclusions 386
PART 3 Natural Salt Accumulation ‚ Belts and
Nodes (Examples) 389
6 Belts of Salt-Dome Basins along the Margins of
Young Oceans 391
6.1 Introduction 391
6.2 Arrangement of Salt-Dome Basins along the
Margins of Young Oceans 392
6.3 Geological Features of Marginal Oceanic
Salt-Dome Basins 397
6.4 Geodynamic Position and History of Marginal Oceanic
Salt-Dome Basins 398
6.5 Morphokinematic Features of Salt Tectonics in
Marginal Oceanic Basins 403
6.6 Specific Conditions and Mechanisms of
Salt Tectonics in Marginal Oceanic Basins 405
6.7 Geodynamic Settings of Salt Tectonics in
Marginal Oceanic Basins 407
6.8 The Salt Tectonics Influence on the Structure of
Sedimentary Sequences of Marginal Oceanic ‚ Basins 409
6.9 Petroleum Resource Potential of Marginal Oceanic
Salt-Dome Basins 410
6.10 Conclusions 411
7 The Mexican Salt-Oil Node and ‚ Center of Natural and
Geo-Technogenic Oil Catastrophes 413
7.1 Introduction 413
7.2 Geologic, Petroleum and Fluid-Dynamic Particulars
of the Mexican Basin 414
7.3 Salt and Petroleum-Bearing Subsurface of the
Mexican Basin 418
7.4 Live Floor of the Gulf of Mexico 422
7.5 Accidents on the Oil Wells as Geotechnogenic
Phenomenon 428
7.6 Emergency Oil Spills and Naphtha Sedimentogenesis 432
7.7 Largest Salt-Petroleum Basins as Global Centers of
Hope and Hazard 434
7.8 On the Elimination of Oil Spills--‚¬„¢ Ecologic Consequences 436
7.9 Conclusions 439
8 Mediterranean Salt-Bearing Super-Giant.
The Messinian Salinity Crisis Enigma 441
8.1 Introduction 441
8.2 Key Features of the Geology and Paleogeodynamic
History 443
8.2.1 Major Geology Features 443
8.2.2 Paleogeodynamic History 447
8.3 Salt Bearing of the Subsurface. Current ‚ Distribution
of the Messinian and ‚ Triassic Salts 449
8.3.1 The Messinian Salt Sequences 450
8.3.2 The Triassic Salts (Modern Distribution) 455
8.3.3 The Current Spatial Interrelations between the Triassic ‚ and Miocene Salts 461
8.4 The Kinematic History of the Triassic Salts an their
Distribution in the Pre-Messinian Time 465
8.5 The Messinian Crisis of Salinity. Existing Concepts of the Messinian Salts Origin 469
8.6 The Messinian Events as a Realization of the Regeneration Model 473
8.6.1 The Geological Events of the Messinian Time 475
8.6.2 The Processes of the Brine-Salt Masses Discharge 479
8.6.3 The Processes of Salt Accumulation 479
8.6.4 Analysis of Prerequisites and Events that had
Facilitated the Realization of the
Regeneration Model 480
8.7 A discussion of the Events and Paradoxes -- of the
Messinian Salt Accumulation from the Perspective of the Regeneration and Evaporite Models
(A Comparative Analysis) 481
8.7.1 The Messinian Time Events 482
8.7.2 Paradoxes -- and Contradictions of the
Messinian Salt Accumulation 483
8.7.3 Results of the Comparative Analysis 488
8.7.4 About the Indications of the Regeneration
Processes--‚¬„¢ Participation in the Messinian
Salt Bodies 489
8.7.5 About the Causes of Disregard of the Injection
Processes--‚¬„¢ Possible Role in the Messinian Salt Accumulation 490
8.8 Conclusions 490
9 The Dead Sea: A Small Nafhto-Salt Node and
Discharge Focus 493
9.1 Introduction 493
9.2 Key Features of Geology and Fluid-Dynamics of the
Dead Sea Graben 495
9.2.1 Structural-Tectonic Situation 495
9.2.2 The Dead Sea Graben Salt Subsurface 499
9.2.3 Fluid-Dynamic Tensions in the Dead Sea
Subsurface and the Ways of its Discharge 502
9.3 The Salt-Bearing Miracle -- of the Globe 503
9.3.1 The Dead Sea and its Unusual -- Features 503
9.3.2 The Dead Sea Features as Reflected in its Names 511
9.4 Origin and History of the Dead Sea Salts,
Diapirs and Brines 515
9.4.1 Existing Concepts of the Origin of the Dead Sea Salt ‚ Graben 515
9.4.2 An Allochthonous Model of Formation of Salts Filling-Up the Dead Sea Graben 520
9.4.3 The Origin of the Dead Sea Brines:
Why is the Sea Salty? 528
9.4.4 The Dead Sea Salts, Diapirs and Brines Formation ‚ History 534
9.5 žn the Natural Analogues of the Dead Sea 538
9.6 Fluctuation in the Dead Sea Brine Level as a
Reflection of Life -- in the Salt-Bearing Subsurface 548
9.6.1 On the Fluctuations of the Dead Sea Brine Level 548
9.6.2 Factors Affecting the Fluctuations of
Brine Lakes Levels 553
9.6.3 Pulsation of the Dead Sea Brine Level as a
Natural Manifestation of the Life -- of
Hydrocarbon-Brine-Salt Subsurface Systems 557
9.7 Myths as Reflections of Natural Events in the
Dead Sea Life -- 559
9.7.1 Sodom Events: Testimonies by the Bible,
Historians, Geographers, Archeologists 560
9.7.2 Sodom Events: Geologic Interpretation 563
9.7.3 Salt or Halo-Volcanism: Geologic Script of the Sodom ‚ Events -- 565
9.7.4 Natural and Geotechnogenic Analogues of the Sodom ‚ Events -- 571
9.8 Conclusions 577
PART 4 Oil and Gas Occurrence Issues in the
Salt-Bearing Basins 583
Introduction 583
10 Salts and Naphtids: Spatial, Kinetic, Geochemical
Interrelations as Forecast Factors 587
10.1 On the Role of Salts in Placement of Hydrocarbon Accumulations 587
10.1.1 General Nature of Spatial Interrelation between
Salts and Hydrocarbons 587
10.1.2 The Association with Various Geodynamic
Types of Salt-Bearing Basins 591
10.1.3 The Role of Salt Various Morpho-Kinetic Types 596
10.2 Salt-Naphtide Nodes 598
10.3 Geological Features of Salt-Naphtide Nodes as the
Factors of Petroleum Occurrence Forecast
(Salt-Naphtide Nodes as Geological Models) 603
10.4 Salt-Naphtide Nodes as Centers of Salt, Brines and Hydrocarbons Ascending Migration and Discharge 606
10.5 On the Salt and Naphtide Crust Recycling 610
10.6 Conclusion. The Utilization of the Salt-Naphtide Interconnections in the Forecast Evaluation of Petroleum Occurrences in Salt-Bearing Basins 611
11 Placement Patterns and Criteria ‚ of the Hydrogen Sulfide-Containing Natural Gas ‚ Field Forecast Evaluation 615
11.1 Introduction 615
11.2 Distribution 616
11.3 The Origin 620
11.4 Factors Controlling the Placement Hydrogen Sulfide Containing Gas Accumulations 622
11.4.1 Formation-Lithological Features 622
11.4.2 Stratigraphic Position 625
11.4.3 Structural-Tectonic Conditions 626
11.4.4 Conditions of Petroleum
Occurrence and Gas Reserves 627
11.4.5 Trap Types 628
11.4.6 Thermobaric Conditions 628
11.4.7 Hydrogeological Conditions 629
11.4.8 Microbiological Parameters 629
11.4.9 Phase-Type of Accumulations 629
11.4.10 Properties of Accumulations--‚¬„¢ Chemical
Composition 630
11.4.11 Sulfur Isotope Composition 631
11.4.12 Complexity and Zoning of the
Mineral-Geochemical Sulfur Shows 632
11.4.13 The Destruction, Migration and
Discharge Parameters 635
11.5 Conclusions. Criteria of the Petroleum
Territories Forecast Evaluation for Hydrogen Sulfide Containing Raw Materials 636
11.6 Conclusions 638
References
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PART 1 Salts in Earth-- Crust: Composition, Tectonic and
Kinematic History, Salt-Naphtide Parakinesis 11
1 Geological-Tectonic Review of World Salt-Bearing Basins 13
1.1 Introduction 13
1.2 Salt-Bearing Basins of Eurasia 25
1.2.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 25
1.2.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 31
1.2.2.1 Salt-Bearing Basins of Europe 31
1.2.2.2 Asian Salt-Bearing Basins 72
1.3 Salt-Bearing Basin of North America 105
1.3.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 105
1.3.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 107
1.4 Salt-Bearing Basins of South America 128
1.4.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 128
1.4.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 129
1.5 Salt-Bearing Basins of Africa and Arabia 136
1.5.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 136
1.5.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 138
1.6 Salt-Bearing Basins of Australia 154
1.6.1 Geotectonic and Mineralogical Review 154
1.6.2 Brief Geological-Mineralogical Description
of the Largest Salt-Bearing Basins 156
1.7 Conclusion 162
2 Historical-Geodynamic Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the World-- Salt-Bearing Basins 163
2.1 Introduction 163
2.2 Fundamentals of the Geodynamic Analysis 164
2.2.1 Terminology 165
2.2.2 Geodynamic Classification 166
2.2.3 Geodynamic Types of Salt-Bearing Basins, their Diagnostic Indications and Lithogeodynamic
Models 171
2.3 On the Preservation of Salt Bodies and Information
Value of the Geologic Record 175
2.4 Neo-Geodynamic Salt-Bearing Basins of ‚ the ‚ World 177
2.4.1 Overview and Analysis 177
2.4.2 The General Picture of Placing Neo-Geodynamic
Salt-Bearing Basins in the Recent Kinematic
Structure of Earth (Analysis Results) 198
2.5 Geodynamic History of the Salt Accumulation 201
2.6 Patterns in the Geodynamic Placement of
Salt-Bearing Basins 213
2.6.1 Salt Accumulation Periodicity 214
2.6.2 Orderliness in the Spatial Placement of
Salt-Bearing Objects 214
2.6.3 Regional Features of the Salt-Bearing
Objects--‚¬„¢ Age Distribution 216
2.6.4 Geodynamic Specialization -- of Salt Accumulation ‚ Epochs 218
2.6.5 Geochemical Specialization -- of Salt
Accumulation Epochs 219
2.6.6 Inheritance in the Placement of
Salt-Bearing Objects 220
2.7 Conclusions 222
3 Kinematic History of the Salts in Earth-- Crust 227
3.1 Morpho-Kinematic Groups of Salt Bodies 227
3.2 Salt Bodies of the Salt-Tectonic Group 229
3.3 Salt Bodies of the Orthotectonic Group 236
3.3.1 Salt Behavior Under Conditions of Active
Tectonics 236
3.3.2 Morphotectonic Features of Salt Bodies in the
Nappe-Folded Areas 239
3.3.3 The Salt Prevalence in Folded Areas of
Various Ages 242
3.4 Kinematic Evolution of Salt Bodies in the Processes of
Tectonic Development 247
3.5 Problems Associated with the Formation of
Nappe-Like Salt Bodies 249
3.6 Conclusions 253
PART 2 Salt in the System of Injection Formations.
A ‚ Recycling Model of the Salt- and
Naftide-Accumulation 257
4 Earth-- Ascending Injection Systems and Injection
Sedimentary Formations 259
4.1 Participation Problem of the Ascending Discharges
in the Sedimentation 259
4.2 Ascending Discharges in Sedimentation Areas:
Objects, Typification 265
4.2.1 System of Injection Discharges 265
4.2.2 Fluids, their Discharge Foci, Influence Aureoles (The ‚ Fluid Group Proper) 267
4.2.3 Flowing Rock Masses and their Discharge Foci (Lithokinetic Group) 275
4.2.4 Parakineses of the Injection Discharges 278
4.3 The Recent Picture of Ascending Discharge Distribution 282
4.3.1 Occurrence of Recent Discharges 282
4.3.2 The Scale of a Recent Input of Injection Material
in the Depositional Environments 284
4.3.3 Geodynamic Environments of Recent Discharge
Foci Placement and their Endogenous Parameters 291
4.3.4 The Environment-Forming Role of Ascending
Discharges 295
4.4 Ecological and Sedimentary Consequences of the Recent Ascending Discharges 304
4.4.1 The Consequences of Fluid Discharges 305
4.4.2 The Consequences of Lithokinetic Discharges 311
4.4.3 General Model of the Injection-Depositional
Processes 313
4.4.4 A Coordinated Typification of Injection Discharges
and of their Injection-Depositional Derivatives 315
4.5 Sedimentary Consequences of Past Ascending
Discharges 319
4.5.1 Sedimentary Derivatives and Indications
of the Fluid Paleo-Discharges 320
4.5.2 Sedimentary Derivatives and Features of
Lithokinetic Paleo-Discharges 326
4.5.3 Injection-Depositional Parageneses 327
4.5.4 Regional Examples of the Injection-Depositional Formations 328
4.6 Combination of the Injection-Depositional Sediment
Types with Background Ones 335
4.7 Conclusions. Expanded Option of a Classification of Sedimentogenesis Types 335
5 Regeneration (Recycling) Salt Accumulation Model 341
5.1 Status of the Salt Origin Problem 341
5.2 The Substance of the Regeneration Model and Examples
of its Implementation 346
5.3 Geological Prerequisites of the Model Implementation 348
5.3.1 The Material Prerequisites 349
5.3.2 The Geodynamic and Landscape Prerequisites 350
5.4 The Tectono-Kinematic Succession and the Brine-Salt
Discharge Types 352
5.5 Sedimentation-Accumulation Consequences of Brine-Salt Discharges 356
5.5.1 General Succession of Processes in
Sedimentation Basins 356
5.5.2 Chemogenic-Accumulative Processes (Interaction between Brines and the Basin Water) 360
5.5.3 Extrusive-Accumulative Processes
(Consequences of the Salt Mass Discharge) 364
5.5.4 Discharge Consequences in
Continental Environments 367
5.6 Discussion of the Regeneration Model 369
5.6.1 Evaluation of the Model-- Genetic Positions
and the Correspondence of the Real Salt-Bearing
Bodies Features with the Sedimentation
Consequences of the Model 369
5.6.2 Mineragenic Aspects of the Model 373
5.6.3 Evidence of the Regeneration Processes--‚¬„¢
Participation in the Formation of Salt Bodies 373
5.6.4 On the Causes of Underestimating the Role of Regeneration Processes in the Salt Accumulation 376
5.6.5 The Salt Dating Problem 378
5.6.6 On Some Contradictions of the Evaporite Salt Accumulation Models 379
5.6.7 On the Role of Exhalation Processes in the Salt Accumulation 380
5.7 On the Evolution of the Salt Accumulation Scale and Mechanism in Earth-- Geologic History 381
5.7.1 The Stratigraphic Placement of Salt 381
5.7.2 On the Interrelations of Various Salt Accumulation Mechanisms and Their Evolution in Earth-- Geologic ‚ History 383
5.8 Conclusions 386
PART 3 Natural Salt Accumulation ‚ Belts and
Nodes (Examples) 389
6 Belts of Salt-Dome Basins along the Margins of
Young Oceans 391
6.1 Introduction 391
6.2 Arrangement of Salt-Dome Basins along the
Margins of Young Oceans 392
6.3 Geological Features of Marginal Oceanic
Salt-Dome Basins 397
6.4 Geodynamic Position and History of Marginal Oceanic
Salt-Dome Basins 398
6.5 Morphokinematic Features of Salt Tectonics in
Marginal Oceanic Basins 403
6.6 Specific Conditions and Mechanisms of
Salt Tectonics in Marginal Oceanic Basins 405
6.7 Geodynamic Settings of Salt Tectonics in
Marginal Oceanic Basins 407
6.8 The Salt Tectonics Influence on the Structure of
Sedimentary Sequences of Marginal Oceanic ‚ Basins 409
6.9 Petroleum Resource Potential of Marginal Oceanic
Salt-Dome Basins 410
6.10 Conclusions 411
7 The Mexican Salt-Oil Node and ‚ Center of Natural and
Geo-Technogenic Oil Catastrophes 413
7.1 Introduction 413
7.2 Geologic, Petroleum and Fluid-Dynamic Particulars
of the Mexican Basin 414
7.3 Salt and Petroleum-Bearing Subsurface of the
Mexican Basin 418
7.4 Live Floor of the Gulf of Mexico 422
7.5 Accidents on the Oil Wells as Geotechnogenic
Phenomenon 428
7.6 Emergency Oil Spills and Naphtha Sedimentogenesis 432
7.7 Largest Salt-Petroleum Basins as Global Centers of
Hope and Hazard 434
7.8 On the Elimination of Oil Spills--‚¬„¢ Ecologic Consequences 436
7.9 Conclusions 439
8 Mediterranean Salt-Bearing Super-Giant.
The Messinian Salinity Crisis Enigma 441
8.1 Introduction 441
8.2 Key Features of the Geology and Paleogeodynamic
History 443
8.2.1 Major Geology Features 443
8.2.2 Paleogeodynamic History 447
8.3 Salt Bearing of the Subsurface. Current ‚ Distribution
of the Messinian and ‚ Triassic Salts 449
8.3.1 The Messinian Salt Sequences 450
8.3.2 The Triassic Salts (Modern Distribution) 455
8.3.3 The Current Spatial Interrelations between the Triassic ‚ and Miocene Salts 461
8.4 The Kinematic History of the Triassic Salts an their
Distribution in the Pre-Messinian Time 465
8.5 The Messinian Crisis of Salinity. Existing Concepts of the Messinian Salts Origin 469
8.6 The Messinian Events as a Realization of the Regeneration Model 473
8.6.1 The Geological Events of the Messinian Time 475
8.6.2 The Processes of the Brine-Salt Masses Discharge 479
8.6.3 The Processes of Salt Accumulation 479
8.6.4 Analysis of Prerequisites and Events that had
Facilitated the Realization of the
Regeneration Model 480
8.7 A discussion of the Events and Paradoxes -- of the
Messinian Salt Accumulation from the Perspective of the Regeneration and Evaporite Models
(A Comparative Analysis) 481
8.7.1 The Messinian Time Events 482
8.7.2 Paradoxes -- and Contradictions of the
Messinian Salt Accumulation 483
8.7.3 Results of the Comparative Analysis 488
8.7.4 About the Indications of the Regeneration
Processes--‚¬„¢ Participation in the Messinian
Salt Bodies 489
8.7.5 About the Causes of Disregard of the Injection
Processes--‚¬„¢ Possible Role in the Messinian Salt Accumulation 490
8.8 Conclusions 490
9 The Dead Sea: A Small Nafhto-Salt Node and
Discharge Focus 493
9.1 Introduction 493
9.2 Key Features of Geology and Fluid-Dynamics of the
Dead Sea Graben 495
9.2.1 Structural-Tectonic Situation 495
9.2.2 The Dead Sea Graben Salt Subsurface 499
9.2.3 Fluid-Dynamic Tensions in the Dead Sea
Subsurface and the Ways of its Discharge 502
9.3 The Salt-Bearing Miracle -- of the Globe 503
9.3.1 The Dead Sea and its Unusual -- Features 503
9.3.2 The Dead Sea Features as Reflected in its Names 511
9.4 Origin and History of the Dead Sea Salts,
Diapirs and Brines 515
9.4.1 Existing Concepts of the Origin of the Dead Sea Salt ‚ Graben 515
9.4.2 An Allochthonous Model of Formation of Salts Filling-Up the Dead Sea Graben 520
9.4.3 The Origin of the Dead Sea Brines:
Why is the Sea Salty? 528
9.4.4 The Dead Sea Salts, Diapirs and Brines Formation ‚ History 534
9.5 žn the Natural Analogues of the Dead Sea 538
9.6 Fluctuation in the Dead Sea Brine Level as a
Reflection of Life -- in the Salt-Bearing Subsurface 548
9.6.1 On the Fluctuations of the Dead Sea Brine Level 548
9.6.2 Factors Affecting the Fluctuations of
Brine Lakes Levels 553
9.6.3 Pulsation of the Dead Sea Brine Level as a
Natural Manifestation of the Life -- of
Hydrocarbon-Brine-Salt Subsurface Systems 557
9.7 Myths as Reflections of Natural Events in the
Dead Sea Life -- 559
9.7.1 Sodom Events: Testimonies by the Bible,
Historians, Geographers, Archeologists 560
9.7.2 Sodom Events: Geologic Interpretation 563
9.7.3 Salt or Halo-Volcanism: Geologic Script of the Sodom ‚ Events -- 565
9.7.4 Natural and Geotechnogenic Analogues of the Sodom ‚ Events -- 571
9.8 Conclusions 577
PART 4 Oil and Gas Occurrence Issues in the
Salt-Bearing Basins 583
Introduction 583
10 Salts and Naphtids: Spatial, Kinetic, Geochemical
Interrelations as Forecast Factors 587
10.1 On the Role of Salts in Placement of Hydrocarbon Accumulations 587
10.1.1 General Nature of Spatial Interrelation between
Salts and Hydrocarbons 587
10.1.2 The Association with Various Geodynamic
Types of Salt-Bearing Basins 591
10.1.3 The Role of Salt Various Morpho-Kinetic Types 596
10.2 Salt-Naphtide Nodes 598
10.3 Geological Features of Salt-Naphtide Nodes as the
Factors of Petroleum Occurrence Forecast
(Salt-Naphtide Nodes as Geological Models) 603
10.4 Salt-Naphtide Nodes as Centers of Salt, Brines and Hydrocarbons Ascending Migration and Discharge 606
10.5 On the Salt and Naphtide Crust Recycling 610
10.6 Conclusion. The Utilization of the Salt-Naphtide Interconnections in the Forecast Evaluation of Petroleum Occurrences in Salt-Bearing Basins 611
11 Placement Patterns and Criteria ‚ of the Hydrogen Sulfide-Containing Natural Gas ‚ Field Forecast Evaluation 615
11.1 Introduction 615
11.2 Distribution 616
11.3 The Origin 620
11.4 Factors Controlling the Placement Hydrogen Sulfide Containing Gas Accumulations 622
11.4.1 Formation-Lithological Features 622
11.4.2 Stratigraphic Position 625
11.4.3 Structural-Tectonic Conditions 626
11.4.4 Conditions of Petroleum
Occurrence and Gas Reserves 627
11.4.5 Trap Types 628
11.4.6 Thermobaric Conditions 628
11.4.7 Hydrogeological Conditions 629
11.4.8 Microbiological Parameters 629
11.4.9 Phase-Type of Accumulations 629
11.4.10 Properties of Accumulations--‚¬„¢ Chemical
Composition 630
11.4.11 Sulfur Isotope Composition 631
11.4.12 Complexity and Zoning of the
Mineral-Geochemical Sulfur Shows 632
11.4.13 The Destruction, Migration and
Discharge Parameters 635
11.5 Conclusions. Criteria of the Petroleum
Territories Forecast Evaluation for Hydrogen Sulfide Containing Raw Materials 636
11.6 Conclusions 638
References
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