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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The origin of overpressure in 'old' sedimentary basins: an example from the Cooper Basin, Australia |
Author: | Van Ruth, P. Hillis, R. Tingate, P. Swarbrick, R. |
Citation: | Geofluids, 2003; 3(2):125-131 |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
ISSN: | 1468-8115 1468-8123 |
Organisation: | National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics |
Statement of Responsibility: | P. Van Ruth, R. Hillis, P. Tingate and R. Swarbrick |
Abstract: | <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Overpressure in ‘old’ sedimentary basins that have not undergone rapid, recent sedimentation cannot be easily explained using traditional burial‐driven mechanisms. The last significant burial event in the Cooper Basin, Australia, was the Late Cretaceous deposition of the Winton Formation (98.5–90 Ma). Maximum temperature in the basin was attained during the Late Cretaceous, with cooling beginning prior to 75 Ma. Hence, overpressure related to rapid burial or palaeomaximum temperatures (e.g. hydrocarbon generation) must have developed prior to 75 Ma. Retaining overpressure for 75 Ma in ‘old’ basins such as the Cooper Basin requires extremely low seal permeabilities. An alternative explanation is that overpressure in the Cooper Basin has been generated because of an increase in mean stress associated with an increase in horizontal compressive stress since Late Cretaceous times. Structural observations and contemporary stress data indicate that there has been an increase in mean stress of approximately 50 MPa between Late Cretaceous times to that presently measured at 3780 m. The largest measured overpressure in the Cooper Basin is 14.5 MPa at 3780 m in the Kirby 1 well. Hence, disequilibrium compaction driven by increasing mean stress can explain the magnitude of the observed overpressure in the Cooper Basin. Increases in mean stress (tectonic loading) may be a feasible mechanism for overpressure generation in other ‘old’ basins that have undergone a recent increase in horizontal stress (e.g. Anadarko Basin).</jats:p> |
Description: | The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1468-8123.2003.00055.x |
Published version: | http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1468-8123.2003.00055.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 6 Australian School of Petroleum publications |
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