Solid bitumen as an indicator of petroleum migration, thermal maturity, and contact metamorphism: A case study in the Barrandian Basin (Silurian - Devonian), Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2024.104493" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.coal.2024.104493</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Solid bitumen as an indicator of petroleum migration, thermal maturity, and contact metamorphism: A case study in the Barrandian Basin (Silurian - Devonian), Czech Republic

Original language description

Silurian and Devonian marine shales and limestones of the Barrandian Basin host abundant black solid, nonfluorescing bitumens that fill tectonic fractures and veins, and occlude fossil moulds and diagenetic concretions. Solid bitumen, interpreted as thermally degraded petroleum, entered the rocks during several successive episodes of fracture-bound petroleum migration that occurred during deeper burial of the strata. Regional distribution of bitumen reflectance values that range between -0.9-2.3% Rr, correlate with variations of its FT-IR and Raman spectroscopic characteristics and aromatic hydrocarbon composition, and collectively evidence the maturity trend increasing across the basin from the southwest to the northeast. The reflectance of chitinozoans and graptolites (-0.8-1.9% Rr) in the country rocks and homogenization temperatures of hydrocarbon fluid inclusions document palaeotemperatures ranging between -90-150 degrees C, characteristic of the oil window zone grading into the gas/condensate zone. Although in a basin-wide perspective the averaged values of solid bitumen and zooclast optical reflectance converge and indicate the same northeastern-increasing regional diagenetic trend, solid bitumen reflectance values vary considerably at individual localities and even within some bitumen samples. The wide scatter of optical reflectance values and the heterogeneity of optical properties, which were attributed to the presence of multiple source rocks in the basin, the variable lithology of bitumen host rocks, or other variables, hamper the use of solid bitumen as a simple alternative to zooclast/vitrinite reflectance palaeothermometers in a given basin. On the other hand, the highly anisotropic domain and the mesophase 'coking' textures of the solid bitumen that were recognized in the NE part of the basin provide unique evidence on an anomalous, hitherto unrecognized, geologically short-lasting thermal event that affected the Palaeozoic rocks. A line of indirect evidence suggests that the coking of the bitumen was caused by a cryptic intrusion, possibly a concealed branch of the Central Bohemian Pluton, which intruded into the strata during the Variscan orogeny. More rarely occurring semi-solid, vividly yellow fluorescing waxy bitumen, that postdates solid bitumen in some fractures and voids, does not reveal a regional thermal maturation trend. It precipitated from relict waxy oils that migrated through the strata during a post-Neogene uplift of the Barrandian region.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Coal Geology

ISSN

0166-5162

e-ISSN

1872-7840

Volume of the periodical

286

Issue of the periodical within the volume

MAY

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

104493

UT code for WoS article

001217915600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85189441798