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| URI | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/C3817D78-CC8D-4D4F-9C8D-3CECCAE600B2 | - |
| Αναγνωριστικό | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.10.033 | - |
| Αναγνωριστικό | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817218304392 | - |
| Γλώσσα | en | - |
| Μέγεθος | 19 pages | en |
| Τίτλος | Geochemical and organic petrological study of bituminous sediments from Dahomey Basin, SW Nigeria | en |
| Δημιουργός | Ogala Jude Etunimonuwa | en |
| Δημιουργός | Kalaitzidis Stavros | en |
| Δημιουργός | Christanis, Kimon | en |
| Δημιουργός | Omo-Irabor Omoleomo Olutoyin | en |
| Δημιουργός | Akinmosin Adewale A. | en |
| Δημιουργός | Yusuf Caleb Ugbede | en |
| Δημιουργός | Pasadakis Nikolaos | en |
| Δημιουργός | Πασαδακης Νικος | el |
| Δημιουργός | Konstantinopoulos Miltiadis | en |
| Δημιουργός | Κωνσταντινοπουλος Μιλτιαδης | el |
| Δημιουργός | Papaefthymiou Helen | en |
| Εκδότης | Elsevier | en |
| Περίληψη | The Dahomey Basin, SW Nigeria, hosts a 3000-m-thick sedimentary succession of Cretaceous and Cenozoic age, of which the Turonian-Maastrichtian Afowo Formation includes sandstones, arkoses, shales, shelly limestones, unconsolidated sand, clay and most importantly, bituminous (tar) sand strata. Eighteen samples were picked up from outcrops exposed by streams and channels, and were examined applying sedimentological, mineralogical, petrographical, geochemical (inorganic and organic) and radiological techniques with the aim of assessing the origin and the thermal maturity of the organic facies. The samples represent mostly coarse-grained sands and subordinately shales, referred usually as ‘tar sands’; they consist of mainly quartz and kaolinite, with variable amounts of mixed clay layers of illite-montmorillonite, mica and pyrite, probably derived from weathering of the Migmatite Gneiss Complex exposed to the north of the basin; this can also explain the relative enrichment in the natural radionuclides 40K, 238U, 226Ra and 232Th for some samples, although the radioactivity falls within the range for world values for soils. The clastic material of Afowo Formation was deposited in a rather oxic shallow marine environment. The particulate organic matter of the bituminous sediments comprises solid hydrocarbons, coalified (huminite) and partially oxidized (inertinite) remnants of terrestrial plants, and minor amounts of both terrestrial and marine liptinite macerals. The random reflectance values of the indigenous huminite population ranges between 0.40 and 0.45% pointing to an immature stage for oil generation. The respective reflectance of the migrabitumens ranges from 0.49 to 0.59% corresponding to vitrinite equivalent reflectance values of 0.70–0.76% falling well within the oil window. This study concludes that the hydrocarbons contained in the Afowo Formation are upwards migrating from parts of the basin where Afowo Formation has subsided at depths corresponding well within the oil window; the source rock corresponds to the middle shale horizon, whereas the sandy horizons act as migration paths and/or reservoirs. | en |
| Τύπος | Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication | en |
| Τύπος | Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές | el |
| Άδεια Χρήσης | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| Ημερομηνία | 2020-11-02 | - |
| Ημερομηνία Δημοσίευσης | 2019 | - |
| Θεματική Κατηγορία | Afowo Formation | en |
| Θεματική Κατηγορία | Dahomey Basin | en |
| Θεματική Κατηγορία | Migrabitumen | en |
| Θεματική Κατηγορία | Organic geochemistry | en |
| Θεματική Κατηγορία | Radioactivity | en |
| Θεματική Κατηγορία | Tar sand | en |
| Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά | J.E. Ogala, S. Kalaitzidis, K. Christanis, O.O. Omo-Irabor, A. Akinmosin, C.U. Yusuf, N. Pasadakis, M. Constantinopoulos and H. Papaefthymiou, "Geochemical and organic petrological study of bituminous sediments from Dahomey Basin, SW Nigeria," Mar. Pet. Geol., vol. 99, pp. 577-595, Jan. 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.10.033 | en |
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