Palynology and genetic sequence stratigraphy of the reservoir rocks (Cenomanian,Bahariya Formation) in the Salam Oil Field,north Western Desert,Egypt |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK;2. NFSR, Palaeobiogeology, Palaeobotany, Palaeopalynology, Liège University, Allée du 6 août, B-18, 4000 Liège, Belgium;3. IRF Group, Inc., 2357 East 23rd street, Tulsa, OK 74114, USA;1. Université de Strasbourg, Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, 1 rue Blessig, F – 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France;2. Université Paul-Sabatier, Laboratoire de Biologie Végétale, 39 Allées Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse, France;3. Laboratory of Paleobotany, A.A.Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuzhnaya 123, Moscow 117647, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Twenty-eight samples from the Bahariya Formation of the Salam-17 Well in the north Western Desert were palynologically investigated. These samples are of Cenomanian age. Fair diversity and fair to moderately preserved palynomorph assemblage has been recovered. Among them, the dinoflagellate cysts showed very poor diversity and abundance. Four miospore zones have been informally identified in the lower Cenomanian. Various palynofacies criteria, adopted from previous publications (e.g. relative particle abundance data, brown to black wood ratio, equi-dimensional to lath-shaped black wood ratio, average size of phytoclasts and spores/pollen ratio) are applied as alternative indicators to monitor the proximal–distal trends instead of the marine palynomorphs-based parameters. The method can be applied in the Egyptian Western Desert to overcome the rarity and absence of dinoflagellate cysts in the recovered organic residues. The palynofacies study of the section demonstrates a predominantly regressive phase, characterized by deltaic, distributary or tidal channels, interrupted by short-lived marine incursions. The palynofacies trends within the studied succession indicate six genetic sequences informally described as Genetic Stratigraphic Sequences A through F. |
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| Keywords: | Genetic sequences Palynofacies Cenomanian Bahariya Formation north Western Desert |
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