Petroleum systems in the eastern and central Taurus region, Turkey

• Published in: Marine and petroleum geology Vol. 21; no. 8; pp. 1061 - 1071
• Main Author: Demirel, Ismail Hakki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2004; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Autochthonous Taurus Units; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Eastern Taurus region; Exact sciences and technology; Hydrocarbons; Marine geology; Petroleum system; Sedimentary rocks; Taurus belt; Middle East; Turkey; Eastern Taurus region; Taurus belt; Autochthonous Taurus Units; Petroleum system; Senonian; Mesozoic; Paleogene; Permian; carbonate rocks; thickness; reservoirs; upper Tertiary; Upper Permian; Devonian; Upper Cretaceous; Cenozoic; algal limestone; petroleum; clastic rocks; shale; Tertiary; Pliocene; upper Paleozoic; upper Miocene; Phanerozoic; lower Miocene; Neogene; Tortonian; sandstone; Lower Carboniferous; upper Eocene; Burdigalian; Upper Devonian; Carboniferous; Bartonian; Messinian; source rocks; Eocene; Cretaceous; chemically precipitated rocks; carbonates; evaporites; Paleozoic; sedimentary rocks; traps; Asia; Lower Cretaceous; Lutetian; Maastrichtian; Aptian; Miocene; middle Eocene

The Autochthonous Taurus ‘known’ petroleum system is geographically located in the eastern Taurus region and includes the Allochthonous Units and Miocene–Pliocene sequences in the Adana Basin. The total thickness of the Early Palaeozoic to Cenozoic sediments reaches 9500–10400 m. The eastern Taurus...