Seismic sequence stratigraphy of Miocene deposits related to eustatic,tectonic and climatic events,Cap Bon Peninsula,northeastern Tunisia |
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| Authors: | Ramzi Gharsalli Taher Zouaghi Mohamed Soussi Riadh Chebbi Sami Khomsi Mourad Bédir |
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| Institution: | 1. Rigo Oil Company, rue du Lac-Turkana, Les Berges du Lac, 1053 Tunis, Tunisia;2. Laboratoire de géoressources, Centre de recherches et des technologies des eaux (Certe), pôle technologique de Borj Cédria, 8020 Soliman, Université de Carthage, Tunisia;3. UR 11ES15, Département de géologie, Université Tunis El Manar, C.P 2092, Tunis, Tunisia;4. Entreprise tunisienne d’activités pétrolières (ETAP), Monplaisir, 1073 Tunis, Tunisia;5. Faculty of Earth sciences, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
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| Abstract: | The Cap Bon Peninsula, belonging to northeastern Tunisia, is located in the Maghrebian Alpine foreland and in the North of the Pelagian block. By its paleoposition, during the Cenozoic, in the edge of the southern Tethyan margin, this peninsula constitutes a geological entity that fossilized the eustatic, tectonic and climatic interactions. Surface and subsurface study carried out in the Cap Bon onshore area and surrounding offshore of Hammamet interests the Miocene deposits from the Langhian-to-Messinian interval time. Related to the basin and the platform positions, sequence and seismic stratigraphy studies have been conducted to identify seven third-order seismic sequences in subsurface (SM1-SM7), six depositional sequences on the Zinnia-1 petroleum well (SDM1-SDM6), and five depositional sequences on the El Oudiane section of the Jebel Abderrahmane (SDM1–SDM5). Each sequence shows a succession of high-frequency systems tract and parasequences. These sequences are separated by remarkable sequence boundaries and maximum flooding surfaces (SB and MFS) that have been correlated to the eustatic cycles and supercycles of the Global Sea Level Chart of Haq et al. (1987). The sequences have been also correlated with Sequence Chronostratigraphic Chart of Hardenbol et al. (1998), related to European basins, allows us to arise some major differences in number and in size. The major discontinuities, which limit the sequences resulted from the interplay between tectonic and climatic phenomena. It thus appears very judicious to bring back these chronological surfaces to eustatic and/or local tectonic activity and global eustatic and climatic controls. |
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| Keywords: | Miocene Sedimentology Sequence stratigraphy Eustasy Tectonic Climate Northeastern Tunisia |
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