Deciphering hydrocarbon evolution history of the Cambrian shales in tectonically complex basins: Constraints from calcite U-Pb dating and low-temperature thermochronology
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Abstract
Assessing hydrocarbon evolution of organic-rich shales in tectonically complex basins is critical for shale gas resource evaluation. A major obstacle is the difficulty in precisely constraining the timing of hydrocarbon migration and leakage events. Here, fluid inclusion microthermometry, calcite U-Pb and detrital zircon (U-Th)/He dating were integrated to reconstruct the hydrocarbon evolution history of the Cambrian organic-rich shales in the southeastern margin of the Upper Yangtze Platform. We assessed the dynamic evolution of shale gas content over time by methane isothermal adsorption coupled with geothermometry and geobarometry . The calcite veins yield U-Pb ages of 113.5–108.9 Ma (C1 calcite) and 65.5–65.2 Ma (C2 calcite), with fluid inclusion trapping temperatures of 186.2 °C and 74.8 °C, respectively. Detrital zircon (U-Th)/He dating indicate that the basin inversion started at the Middle Triassic (ca. 241 Ma), leading to a cooling in the shales. The onset of intense exhumation and folding deformation occurred at ca. 113Ma, which corresponds to the Yanshanian Orogeny . This tectonic deformation event triggered the opening of fractures (as indicated by the formation of the C1 calcite veins with ages of ca. 114–109 Ma), facilitating shale gas migration and leakage, with a shale gas loss of at least 0.75 cm 3 /g. These results demonstrate that combination of fluid inclusion and geochronological data can provide accurate geochronological constraints on shale gas migration and leakage associated with tectonic uplifts, which can be an effective approach to decipher hydrocarbon evolution history of shales in tectonically complex basins worldwide.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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