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DOI: 10.1306/011817DIG17031

The Apulia Carbonate Platform—Gargano Promontory, Italy (Upper Jurassic–Eocene)

Michele Morsilli,1 Alex Hairabian,2 Jean Borgomano,3 Sergio Nardon,4 Erwin Adams,5 and Guido Bracco Gartner6

1Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università di Ferrara, Via G. Saragat, 1, 44122 Ferrara, Italy; [email protected]
2Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE), Unité Mixte 34 Aix-Marseille Université-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Unité Mixte de Recherche 7330)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Unité Mixte de Recherche 161), Aix-Marseille Université, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France; [email protected]
3Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE), Unité Mixte 34 Aix-Marseille Université-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Unité Mixte de Recherche 7330)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Unité Mixte de Recherche 161), Aix-Marseille Université, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, France; [email protected]
4Sedimentology, Petrography and Stratigraphy Department, Exploration & Production Division, Eni, Via Emilia, 1, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy; [email protected]
5Exploration Department, Petroleum Development Oman, P.O. Box 81, Postal Code 100, Muscat, Oman; [email protected]
6Shell Global Solutions International B.V., Kesslepark, 1, P.O. Box 60, 2280 AB Rijswijk, The Netherlands; [email protected]

ABSTRACT

The Upper Jurassic to Eocene carbonate rocks of the Gargano Promontory belong to the Apulia Carbonate Platform (ACP) and provide a spectacular and complete succession of slope and base-of-slope resedimented gravity flow carbonates with preserved reservoir properties and, with its coeval carbonate platform, displaying various tectonostratigraphic architectures. The ACP margin is characterized by an overall aggrading architecture, and different geometric and depositional features. Facies types and sedimentary dynamics of the carbonate slope and gravity deposits can be analyzed with respect to the stratigraphic architecture of the platform-to-basin transition. These outcrops are the only analogs of some important oil reservoirs and plays present in the equivalent slope to basin succession in the Adriatic offshore and elsewhere.

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