Basins having Upper Devonian-Tournaisian source rocks
Basin or Province |
Structural Form | Source Rock | Dominant Kerogen Type | Main Reservoirs | Principal Maturation Stage | Reference |
Volga-Ural, Timan-Pechora, North Caspian |
Platform |
Domanik fm & facies equiv; marine sh & carbnte |
II |
M Dev ss, Lower Carbonif ss, U. Dev-M Carbon carb |
Late Perm-Tr |
Zhuse et al., 1975; Ashirov et al., 1981; Ulmishek, 1982, 1988 |
Alberta |
Platform |
Duvernay, Ireton, and Exshaw fm; marine sh |
II |
U Dev carb |
M Cret-Late Tert |
Parsons, 1973; Porter et al., 1982 |
Anadarko, Permian |
Platform |
Woodford sh; marine sh |
II |
Sil-Dev carb |
Penn-Early Perm |
Landes, 1970; Hill, 1971; Campbell et al., 1988; Jones & Smith, 1965 |
Appalachian |
Platform |
Chattanooga sh; marine sh |
II |
Dev ss |
Penn-Early Perm |
Landes, 1970; Ray, 1971 |
Williston, Michigan, Illinois |
Circular sag |
New Albany sh, Antrim sh, Bakken fm |
II |
Dev-Penn ss & carb |
Late Cret-Early Tert? |
North, 1985; Barrows & Cluff, 1984; Meissner, 1984 |
Pripyat, Dnieper-Donets |
Rift |
U Dev-Tournaisian marine sh & carbnte |
II |
U Dev carb (Paripyat), Carbonif-Lower Perm clastics (Dnieper-Donets) |
Penn-Early Perm |
Chaykovskaya & Volik, 1986; Il'inskaya & Kulayeva, 1979 |
Illizi |
Platform |
U & M Dev marine sh |
II |
Dev-Carbonif ss |
M Cret |
Tissot, 1984a; Aliyev et al., 1979 |