South Caspian
The South Caspian Basin is a mature hydrocarbon province with some of the largest producing oil and gas fields in Central Asia. Rapid subsidence of the basin in the late Neogene provided accommodation space for up to 6 km of sediment to be deposited from major river systems derived from the Russian Craton and mountainous Tethyan orogenic belt. These sediments overlie the prolific Maykopian source rock. Excellent exposures of Pliocene reservoir equivalent units occur in Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan. The prediction of reservoir presence, distribution and quality is the key issue in this basin.
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Most Recent Reports
- Petrography, provenance and detrital zircon U-Pb age signature of palaeo-Amu Darya River sands from Turkmenistan: Implications for reservoir quality in the South Caspian Basin
- Detrital zircon U-Pb age data from Jurassic to Cretaceous sediments of the greater Caspian region: Insights into sediment source areas and dispersal patterns
- Detrital zircon U-Pb age data from Quaternary sands of the Amu Darya River system
- The composition of Quaternary and modern sands from the Amu Darya River system
- Provenance studies of the Productive Series, offshore Azerbaijan; Petrographic and heavy mineral analyses