Sedimentary system characteristics and depositional filling model of Upper Permian–Lower Triassic in South Yellow Sea Basin

Abstract

In the South Yellow Sea Basin, Mesozoic–Paleozoic marine strata are generally well developed with large thickness, and no substantial breakthroughs have been made in hydrocarbon exploration. Through research, it is believed that the Upper Permian–Lower Triassic can be regarded as a long-term base-level cycle. Based on drilling data, characteristics of the lithology–electric property combination cyclicity, and the special lithology, the long-term base-level cycle was divided into five medium-term base-level cycles (MC₁–MC₅). On this basis, the Permian–Triassic sedimentary systems and their filling model were analyzed in accordance with the change of base-level cycle and transition of sedimentary environment, as well as characteristics of the drilling sedimentary facies and seismic facies. The results show that there were six sedimentary systems (fluvial, delta, tidal flat, open platform, restricted platform, and continental shelf) developed in the Upper Permian–Lower Triassic, the sedimentary systems were distributed such that the water was deep in the northwest and shallow in the southeast, and there were two base-level cycle filling models (a relatively stable tidal flat facies and a rapidly transgressive continental shelf facies to stable platform facies) developed in the Upper Permian–Lower Triassic. These models can provide a basis for evaluation of the Mesozoic–Paleozoic hydrocarbon geology in the South Yellow Sea Basin.

Keywords

sequence base-level cycle / sedimentary system / depositional filling model / Upper Permian–Lower Triassic / South Yellow Sea Basin

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