Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (2): 132-140,167.doi: 10.11743/ogg20050201

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Record and narration of Academician Guan Shicong's style of geologic work

Sun Zhaocai   

  1. Wuxi Branch of Exploration and Production Research Institute, SINOPEC, Wuxi, Jiangsu
  • Received:2005-01-19 Online:2005-04-25 Published:2012-01-16

Abstract:

Academician Guan Shicong, a famous expert in regional geology and petroleum geology, has made outstanding contributions to Chinese geologic cause through geologic researches over 60 years. His main achievements in regional geology are verification, for the first time, of the existence of Longshan movement in southern Gansu,western Qinling area and establishment of the Ordovician stratigraphic system in Zhuozishan area. His main contributions to petroleum geology include boosting the breakthrough of petroleum exploration in Cenozoic in North China basin; supervising the publication of the Atlas of Petroleum Geology in People's Republic of China; initiating the three-series division of the continental Cretaceous in China, and thus directing the classification of Cretaceous sedimentation types and selection of prospective areas; promoting the scientific research, reconnaissance and exploration of natural gas, including coal-derived or humic gas, resulting in large progress to be made in our natural gas exploration; participating the planning of our second round petroleum reconnaissance, under his guide large progresses have successively been made in major petroliferous provinces,such as Ordos basin, northwest Sichuan, Pearl River Mouth basin in northern South China Sea, shelf basin in East China Sea and northern Tarim basin. Academician Guan Shicong was adept in summarizing theories from practices. In his book "Marine-Facies, Terrestrial and Offshore Petroleum Geology in China", he proposed a composite mode of paleo-marine depositional environments in China, which consisted of 2 facies groups, 6 facies regions and 16 facies belts, and incisively forecasted the exploration potential of the marine formations. Since all the Meso-Cenozoic continental basins in China are of intraplate basins, he proposed a new principle for classification of Meso-Cenozoic continental sedimentary basins in China, and have effectively guided the petroleum exploration in continental basins in China.

Key words: petroleum reconnaissance, exploration area selection, practice first, tectonic geology

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