Super basin thinking: Methods to explore and revitalize the world's greatest petroleum basins

CA Sternbach - AAPG Bulletin, 2020 - archives.datapages.com
ABSTRACT The AAPG Super Basin Initiative creates an action plan to help geoscientists
revisit the world's most productive petroleum basins by providing resources through …

Environmental controls on trace-fossil distribution in the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation (Argentina): Implications for the analysis of fine …

M Paz, MG Mángano, LA Buatois, PR Desjardins… - Sedimentary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past years, the interest in organic-rich, fine-grained depositional systems has been
growing due to the increasing relevance of unconventional shale reservoirs and several …

Unravelling the fabrics preserved inside early diagenetic concretions: Insights for the distribution, accumulation and preservation of organic-rich mud in the interior of …

G Otharán, C Zavala, J Schieber, D Olivera… - Sedimentary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fine-grained sedimentary rocks generally undergo severe mechanical compaction during
burial, which complicates the recognition of primary mudstone fabrics and associated …

Organic geochemical patterns of the Vaca Muerta Formation

IE Brisson, ME Fasola, HJ Villar - 2020 - archives.datapages.com
Abstract The Vaca Muerta Formation (Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous) bears a high-quality,
oil-prone kerogen deposited under mostly anoxic, marine conditions and constitutes a world …

Organic-rich, fine-grained contourites in an epicontinental basin: the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

M Paz, LA Buatois, MG Mángano, PR Desjardins… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the last few years, recognition and characterization of sedimentary processes in fine-
grained successions is receiving considerable attention in part due to the increased …

Natural fractures: From core and outcrop observations to subsurface models

E Ukar, JFW Gale, A Fall, RG López, D Hryb… - 2020 - archives.datapages.com
Natural fractures are abundant in the Vaca Muerta Formation and are important because
they may affect hydraulic-fracture growth during well stimulation. They contribute to …

The first economical unconventional play outside North America: Context, history, and “coopetition”

D Minisini, B Fryklund, F Gerali, M Fantín - 2020 - archives.datapages.com
This introductory chapter describes and discusses (1) the idea of coopetition that gave birth
to this AAPG Memoir,(2) the importance of Geology in exploring and developing …

Ichnology of muddy shallow-water contourites from the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina: implications for trace-fossil models

M Paz, MG Mángano, LA Buatois… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Contourites are increasingly being recognized in ancient fine-grained depositional
environments. However, detailed ichnologic analyses focusing on shallow-water examples …

Sequence stratigraphy and the three-dimensional distribution of organic-rich units

RF Domínguez, O Catuneanu, HM Reijenstein, R Notta… - 2020 - archives.datapages.com
Abstract The Vaca Muerta Formation consist of outer ramp to basinal facies in a mixed
siliciclastic–carbonate creating an organic-rich section up to 500 m thick. This chapter …

Stratigraphic context: Cyclostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and seismic stratigraphy

HA Leanza, DA Kietzmann, MPI Llanos, MK Martínez - 2020 - archives.datapages.com
Abstract The Vaca Muerta Formation deposited in a retro-arc setting, favored by an under
filled depocenter and uplifted peripheral zones. The onset of the deposition corresponds to a …