Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (3): 627-638, 701.doi: 10.11743/ogg20210309

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Characteristics and geological significance of mixed sediments in the Lower Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation, central Sichuan Basin

Jinmin Song1(), Yaxiong Zhang2, Kewei Yin1,3, Shugen Liu1,4, Zongyu Chen5, Zhiwu Li1, Yanhong Tian1,6, Wei Sun1, Ying Liu3, Xin Jin1, Lingli Zhao1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan 610059, China
    2. Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute, SINOPEC, Beijing 100083, China
    3. Exploration and Development Research Institute of Huabei Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Renqiu, Hebei 062552, China
    4. Xihua University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610039, China
    5. Southwest Branch Company of East Geophysical Company, CNPC, Chengdu, Sichuan 610213, China
    6. Sichuan Geology and Mineral Exploration and Development Bureau of 405 Geological Team, Chengdu, Sichuan 611830, China
  • Received:2018-10-10 Online:2021-06-28 Published:2021-06-23

Abstract:

The mixed siliciclastic and carbonate sediments that prevail the Lower Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation in the central Sichuan Basin are poorly understood.Their characteristics and geological significances are therefore focused in this study through core description and petrologic analysis.The results show that mixed carbonate-siliciclastic deposition dominates the formation as carbonate-mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sequences and mixed carbonate-siliciclasitic sequences in gradually mixing or type Ⅱ composite mixing styles.Vertically, the sediments are clearly storm-related and controlled by sea level variations in transgression and early regression stages of the third-order eustatic cycle with the mixing range much larger in transgression than that in regression stage.Horizontally, the sediments show higher mixing intensity in the Gaoshiti area than in the Moxi area.A characteristic comparison between the sediments of the formation in the central and northern Sichuan Basin reveals that sediments in the northern part of the basin have higher mixing intensity and greater granular size due to its adjacency to the Qinling Palaeocean and Motianling Palaeoland and a possible influx of terrigenous debris brought by storms through the north part to the center.The mixed sediments in the central Sichuan Basin indicate that Gaoshiti area was lying on a palaeo-slope where silty quartz grains were unloaded to form a mixing deposition center.It is also highly possible that quality reservoirs in the formation occur mostly in the weakly to non-mixing sediments of shoal facies, since highly mixed sediments are not suitable for the formation and development of such reservoirs.

Key words: mixed sediment, sedimentary setting, geological significance, Longwangmiao Formation, Cambrian, Sichuan Basin

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