Fluid dynamics and subsurface sediment mobilization processes: an overview from Southeast Caribbean

Basin Research - Tập 22 Số 4 - Trang 361-379 - 2010
Éric Deville1, Sophie‐Hélène Guerlais1, Siegfried Lallemant2, F. Schneider1,3
1IFP, Rueil-Malmaison, France
2Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy Pontoise, France
3present address: BEICIP-FRANLAB, 232 avenue Napoleon Bonaparte, 92500 Rueil-Malmaison, France

Tóm tắt

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the origin and the dynamics of subsurface sediment mobilization processes in tectonically mobile regions and shale‐rich environment. This is illustrated by the example of Trinidad and the south of the Barbados prism. In this area of the southeast Caribbean, geophysical acquisitions have spectacularly shown the widespread development of sediment mobilization features in the interference area between the southern part of the Barbados prism and the active turbidite system of the Orinoco. Numerous mud volcanoes are especially developed along ramp anticline crests through hydraulic fracture systems. The area also exhibits trends of structures that correspond to massive uplifts of well‐preserved turbidite and hemipelagic sediments that cut up the surrounding sediments. Some of these structures are complicated by the development of collapse structures, calderas and superimposed mud volcanoes. The mobilized sediments expelled by the mud volcanoes are not only liquefied argillaceous but also fine sandy material from deep horizons, and various shallower formations pierced by the mud conduits. Both in the Barbados prism and in Trinidad, the expelled mud is rich in thin, angular and mechanically damaged quartz grains, which are probably cataclastic flows issued from sheared and collapsed deep sandy reservoirs. The exotic clasts and breccias result mostly from hydraulic fracturing. In Trinidad, the gas phase is mainly deep thermogenic methane associated with hydrocarbon generation at depth. Subsurface sediment mobilization notably differs from salt mobilization by the role taken by the fluid dynamics that control overpressured shale mobilization and induce sediment liquefaction. A reaction chain of several deformation processes develops around the conduits. Massive sedimentary uplift corresponds to large movements of stratified solid levels, possibly due to the tectonic inversion of pre‐existing mud volcano systems. All these phenomena are controlled by the development of overpressure at depth. No evidence for piercing shale diapirs has been observed in the area studied.

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo

Aliyev A.A., 2002, Catalogue of Recorded Eruptions of Mud Volcanoes of Azerbaijan

Barboza S.A.&Boettcher S.S.(2000)Major and trace element constraints on fluid origin Offshore Eastern Trinidad. Special Publication of the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago and the Society of Petroleum Engineers TG03 11pp.

Battani A., 2001, Identifying the relationship between mud volcanoes, groundwater flow and hydrocarbon reservoirs in Trinidad, a combined noble gas and geochemistry case study, 81, 442

Battani A., 2009, Mobile Shale Basins, Chapter 13, 1

Becker K., 1997, Proc. ODP Sci. Results, 247

10.1016/0040-1951(82)90070-1

Blanc G., 1988, Advection de fluides interstitiels dans les séries sédimentaires du complexe d'accretion de la Barbade (leg 110 ODP), Bull. Soc. Géol. France, 8, 453, 10.2113/gssgfbull.IV.3.453

Brami T.R. Pirmez C. Archie C. Heerala L.S.&Holman K.L.(2000)Late Pleistocene deep‐water stratigraphy and depositional processes. GCSSEPM Foundation 20th Annual Research Conference Deep‐Water Reservoirs of the World pp. 104–115.

10.1029/JB095iB06p08969

10.1016/0264-8172(87)90022-5

10.1029/TC007i003p00613

Castrec M., 1996, Major‐ and trace element and Sr isotope constraints on fluid circilation in the Barbados accretionary complex. Part II, circulation rates and fluxes, 145, 487

10.1016/0264-8172(95)00067-4

Cooper C.(2001) Mud volcanoes of the South Caspian Basin. Seismic data and implications for hydrocarbon systems (extended abstract).American Association of Petroleum GeologistsConvention Abstracts CD‐ROM 5pp.

10.1016/0264-8172(94)90053-1

Davies R., 2005, Emplacement of giant mud volcanoes in the south Caspian Basin, 3D seismic reflection imaging of their root zones, 162, 1

Davies R.J., 2007, Birth of a mud volcano, East Java, 29 May 2006, 17, 4

Deville E. Battani A. Callec Y. Guerlais S.‐H. Mascle A. Prinzhofer A. Schmitz J.&Lallemant S.(2004) Processes of Mud Volcanism and Shale Mobilization: A Structural Thermal and Geochemical Approach in the Barbados‐Trinidad Compressional System. 24th Annual GCCSEPM foundation Bob F. Perkins Conference pp.514–527.

Deville E., 2003, Subsurface Sediment Mobilization, 475

Deville E., 2003, Deep‐water erosion processes in the Orinoco turbidite system, Offshore, 63, 92

Deville É., 2009, Cyclic activity of mud volcanoes, evidences from Trinidad (SE Caribbean), 26, 1681

Deville E., 2006, Fluid vs solid subsurface sediment mobilization processes, insight from the South of the Barbados Accretionary prism, 428, 33

Deville E., Principles of Regional Geology

Deville E. Mascle A. Griboulard R. Huyghe P. Padron De Carillo C.&Lebrun J.‐F.(2003c)From Frontal Subduction to a Compressional Transform System: New Geophysical Data on the Structure of the Caribbean‐South America Plate Boundary in south‐eastern Caribbean. VIII Simposio Bolivariano extended abstract paper 6 5pp.

Deville E. Mascle A. Guerlais S.‐H. Decalf C.&Colletta B.(2003d)Lateral changes of frontal accretion and mud volcanism processes in the Barbados accretionary prism. In:Mexico and the Caribbean Region: Plate Tectonics Basin Formation and Hydrocarbon Habitats(Ed. byC.Bartolini T.Buffler&J.F.Blickwede) Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. 79 1–19.

Deville E., 2003, Les volcans de boues, Pour la Sci., 2003, 26

Dia A.N., 1999, Trinidad mud volcanoes, where do the expelled fluids come from, 63, 1023

Dimitrov L.I., 2002, Mud volcanoes, the most important pathway for degassing deeply buried sediments, 59, 49

Duerto L., Mobile Shale Basins

Duerto L., 2002, 3D geometry and evolution of shale diapirs in the Eastern Venezuelan basin (abs.), Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol.

10.1016/j.dsr.2007.03.007

Ellouz‐Zimmermann N., 2007, Special Volume: Thrust belts and Foreland Basins, Chapter 17, 325

Ellouz‐Zimmermann N., 2007, Special Volume. Thrust belts and Foreland Basins, Chapter 18, 349

10.1029/2001GL014340

Faugères J.C., 1989, Les apports du diapirisme argileux dans la sédimentation d'un prisme d'accrétion, la ride de la Barbade au sud-est des Petites Antilles, 308, 747

10.1029/92JB01853

Fisher A.T., 1990, Transient fluid flow at the toe of the Barbados accretionary complex, constraints from ocean drilling program leg 110 heat flow studies and simple models, 95, 8845

Foucher J.P. Henry P.&Harmegnies F.(1997)Long term observations of pressure and temperature in hole 848D Barbados Accretionary Prism. In:Scientific Results Northern Barbados Ridge(Ed. byT.H.Shipley Y.Ogawa Y.Blum&J.M.Bahr) Proc. ODP Sci. Results 156 239–245.Ocean Drilling Program College Station TX.

10.1029/JB095iB06p08859

Gieskes J., 1990, Hydrogeochemistry of the northern Barbados accretionary complex transect, ODP leg 110, 95, 8809

Gonthier E., 1994, Le Prisme d'accrétion tectonique Sud‐Barbade. Bilan des données recueillies au cours des missions Caracolante II, Diapicar, Diapisar and Diapisub, Rev. Aquitaine-Océans, 1, 1

10.1016/S0264-8172(00)00016-7

Grauls D., 1999, Overpressure, causal mechanism, conventional and hydromechanical approaches, 54, 667

10.1016/0040-1951(91)90111-5

Griboulard R., 2000, Observations des déformations superficielles par submersible et imagerie Sonar SAR d'un pli d'accretion (prisme Sud‐Barbade, Océan Atlantique), C. R. l'Acad. Sci. Paris, 330, 281

Griboulard R., 1996, Le Prisme d'accrétion tectonique Sud‐Barbade. Atlas d'images acoustiques, Rev. Aquitaine-Océans, 2, 1

Guerlais S.‐H.(2000) Modélisation des régimes de pression dans le prisme d'accrétion de la Barbade à partir des données ODP. M.Sc. degree memoir. IFP report 55546.

Guliyiev I.S., 1998, All About Mud Volcanoes

Hedberg H.D., 1980, Problems of the petroleum migration, 179

10.1029/2000JB900215

Henry P., 1990, Mud volcano field seaward of the Barbados accretionary complex, a deep towed scan sonar survey, 95, 8917

Henry P., 1996, Fluid flow in and around a mud volcanoes field seaward of the Barbados accretionary wedge, results from Manon cruise, 101, 20297

Heppard P.D. Cander H.S.&Eggertson E.B.(1998)Abnormal pressure and the occurrence of hydrocarbons in offshore eastern Trinidad West Indies. In:Abnormal Pressures in Hydrocarbon Environments(Ed. byB.E.Law G.F.Ulmishek&V.I.Slavin) Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. 70 215–246.

Higgins G.E., 1974, Mud Volcanoes, their nature and origin, 84, 101

10.1016/S1874-5997(99)80048-3

Jacome M.I. Kusznir N. Audemard F.&Flint S.(2003)Tectono‐stratigraphic evolution of the Maturin foreland basin eastern Venezuela. In:Mexico and the Caribbean Region: Plate Tectonics Basin Formation and Hydrocarbon Habitats(Ed. byC.Bartolini T.Buffler&J.F.Blickwede) Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. 79 735–749.

10.1007/1-4020-3204-8_13

Karner S.L., 2005, Laboratory deformation of granular quartz sand, implications for the burial of clastic rocks, 89, 603

Kastner M. Zheng Y. Laier T. Jenkins W.&Ito T.(1997)Geochemistry of flow regime in the décollement zone at the nothern Barbados ridge. In:Scientific Results Northern Barbados Ridge(Ed. byT.H.Shipley Y.Ogawa P.Blum&J.M.Bahr) Proc. ODP Sci. Results 156 311–319.Ocean Drilling Program College Station TX.

10.1029/2000RG000093

Kopf A., 2000, From the Arctic to the Mediterranean: Salt, Shale, and Igneous Diapirs in and Around Europe, 169

10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00278-3

Kugler H.G.(1965) Sedimentary volcanism. Transactions of the Fourth Carribean Geolological Conference J.B. Saunders (Ed.) Caribbean Printers Port‐of‐Spain pp.11–13.

Kugler H.G., 1984, The Joes River formation of Barbados and its fauna, Eclogae Geol. Helv., 77, 675

10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2004.08.004

Labaume P., 1995, Circulation et surpression de l'eau interstitielle dans le prisme d'accrétion nord‐Barbade, résultats du Leg ODP 156, 320, 977

Lance S., 1998, Submarine study of mud volcanoes seaward of the Barbados accretionary wedge, sedimentology, structure and rheology, 145, 255

10.1029/JB095iB06p08829

Loncke L., 2004, Mud volcanoes, gas chimneys, pockmarks and mounds in the Nile deep‐sea fan (Eastern Mediterranean), geophysical evidences, 21, 669

10.1190/1.1487290

10.1029/96JB00140

Martinelli G., 1999, Mud volcanoes of Italy, a review, Giornale Geol., 61, 107

Mascle A. Endignoux L.&Chennouf T.(1990)Frontal accretion and piggyback basin development at the southern edge of the Barbados Ridge accretionary complex. (Ed. byJ.C.Moore&A.Mascle et al.)Proc. ODP Sci. Results 110 409–422.

10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.001

10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00022-0

Moore J.C., 1998, Consolidation patterns during initiation and evolution of a plate boundary decollement zone, Northern Barbados accretionary prism, 26, 811

Moore J.C., 1988, Tectonics and hydrogeology of the northern Barbados Ridge, results from ocean drilling program leg 110, 100, 1578

Morlet C.K., 2003, Subsurface Sediment Mobilization: London, 381

10.1029/JB087iB04p02762

10.1016/0146-6380(88)90057-5

Rutledge A.K.&Leonard D.S.(2001) Role of multibeam sonar in oil and gas exploration and development. Offshore Technology Conference. 12956 12pp

Sassen R., 2003, Gas venting and subsurface charge in the Green Canyon area, Gulf of Mexico continental slope, evidence of a deep bacterial methane source?, 34, 1455

Sassi W., 1997, Role of faults and layer interfaces on spatial variation of stress regimes in basins, interferences from numerical modelling, 266, 101

Schneider F., 2002, Ceres 2D, a numerical prototype for HC potential evaluation in complex area, 54, 607

Senn A., 1940, Paleogene of Barbados and its bearing on history and structure of Antillean‐Caribbean region, Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 24, 1548

Shipley T.H., 1994, Seismically inferred dilatancy distribution, northern Barbados Ridge decollement, implication for fluid migration and fault strength, 22, 411

10.1306/11220505045

Sullivan S. Wood L.J.&Mann P.(2004)Distribution nature and origin of mobile mud feature offshore Trinidad. 24th Annual GCCSEPM foundation Bob F. Perkins Conference pp.498–513.

Sumner R.H., 2001, Mud diapirism in front of the Barbados accretionary wedge, the influence of fracture zones and North America-South America plate motions, 18, 591

Van Rensbergen P. Hillis R.R. Maltman A.J.&Morley C.K.(2003)Subsurface sediment mobilization:introduction. In:Subsurface Sediment Mobilization(Ed. byP.Van Rensbergen R.R.Hillis A.J.Maltman&C.Morley) Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc. (Lond.) 216 1–8.

Van Rensbergen P., 1999, Structural evolution of shale diapirs from reactive rise to mud volcanism, 3Dseismic data from the Baram delta, offshore Brunie Darussalam, 156, 633

Vrolijk P., 1990, Stable isotope ratios of interstitial fluids from the northern Barbados accretionary prism, ODP leg 110, Ocean Drilling Prog. Sci. Results, 110, 189

Vrolijk P., 1991, Syntectonic carbonate veins from the Barbados accretionary prism (ODP Leg 110), record of palaeohydrology, 31, 671

10.1016/0040-1951(93)90208-2

Westbrook G.K., 1983, Long décollements and mud volcanoes, evidence from the Barbados Ridge complex for the role of high pore fluid pressure in the development of an accretionary complex, 11, 279

Yassir N., 1987, Mud volcanoes, evidence of neotectonic activity, 9, 513

Thông tin
Thông tin xuất bản

Basin Research

Tập 22 Số 4

361-379

Thông tin tác giả