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AAPG Bulletin, V.
2013. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
DOI:10.1306/04041312225
Tectonic versus diagenetic origin of fractures in a naturally fractured carbonate reservoir analog (Nerthe anticline, southeastern France)
Arthur P. C. Lavenu,1 Juliette Lamarche,2 Arnaud Gallois,3 Bertrand D. M. Gauthier4
1Aix-Marseille University, Centre Europeen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Geosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE) UM 34, 3, place Victor Hugo (case 67), 13331 Marseille Cedex 3, France; [email protected]
2Aix-Marseille University, CEREGE UM 34, 3, place Victor Hugo (case 67), 13331 Marseille Cedex 3, France; [email protected]
3Royal Holloway University of London, Queens Building, Department of Earth Sciences, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom; [email protected]
4Total EP, Tour Coupole, 2 place Jean Millier, la Defense 6, 92078 Paris-La Defense Cedex, France; [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Field analogs allow a better characterization of
fracture
networks to constrain naturally fractured reservoir models. In analogs, the origin, nature, geometry, and other attributes of
fracture
networks can be determined and can be related to the reservoir through the geodynamic history. In this article, we aim to determine the sedimentary and diagenetic controls on
fracture
patterns and the genetic correlation of
fracture
and diagenesis with tectonic and burial history. We targeted two outcrops of Barremian carbonates located on both limbs of the Nerthe anticline (southeastern France). We analyzed
fracture
patterns and rock facies as well as the tectonic, diagenetic, and burial history of both sites.
Fracture
patterns are determined from geometric, kinematic, and diagenetic criteria based on field and lab measurements.
Fracture
sequences are defined based on crosscutting and abutting relationships and compared with geodynamic history and subsidence curves. This analysis shows that fractures are organized in two close-to-perpendicular joint sets (i.e., mode I).
Fracture
average spacing is 50 cm (20 in.).
Fracture
size neither depends on
fracture
orientation nor is controlled by bed thickness. Neither mechanical stratigraphy nor
fracture
stratigraphy is observed at outcrop scale. Comparing
fracture
sequences and subsidence curves shows that fractures existed prior to folding and formed during early burial. Consequently, the Nerthe fold induced by the Pyrenean compression did not result in any new
fracture
initiation on the limbs of this fold. We assume that the studied Urgonian carbonates underwent early diagenesis, which conferred early brittle properties to the host rock.
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