Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (6): 1176-1187.doi: 10.11743/ogg20200606

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Differences and controlling factors of Changxing Formation reefs of the Permian in the Sichuan Basin

Deqin Ma1,2,3(), Jingchun Tian1,*(), Xiaobing Lin1, Long Wen4, Liang Xu4   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, CDUT, Chengdu, Sichuan 610059, China
    2. Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, China
    3. Tibet University, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region 850000, China
    4. Research Institute of Exploration and Development of Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company, PetroChina, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
  • Received:2019-08-30 Online:2020-12-28 Published:2020-12-09
  • Contact: Jingchun Tian E-mail:deqinma@163.com;tjc@cdut.edu.cn

Abstract:

The development characteristics of the reefs in the Permian Changxing Formation in the Sichuan Basin are systematically studied to determine the differences of the reefs developed in the same formation of different plays through observation of outcrops and cores as well as experiments.The results show that the reefs from different plays vary in the development stage from nil to as much as four stages of development; in the completeness of reef cycles, including the differences in cycles of the same location but of different stages or the same cycle but of different locations; in lithofacies and biological assemblages; and in reef spatial distribution, including a banded distribution of multiple rows, dispersed distribution, single-row distribution and ring distribution.Based on the results, we proposed four factors controlling the reef development, i.e., the palaeogeomorphology determines the location and morphology; the palaeoenvironment controls the development stages and the integrity; the palaeobathymetry (sea-level changes) controls the reef assemblages and cyclicity; and the palaeontology controls the reef composition and integrity.

Key words: palaeontology, reef, Changxing Formation, palaeobathymetry, palaeogeomorphology, palaeoenvironment, Sichuan Basin

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