- Title
- Linking onshore and offshore crustal features, integrating seismic and borehole data in the Gamtoos basin
- Creator
- Makuzeni, Manyano
- Subject
- Submarine geology
- Subject
- Geology Geophysics
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/49137
- Identifier
- vital:41604
- Description
- The margin of the Southern Africa continent harbours the history about the fragmentation and separation of Gondwana in its basins. The integration of onshore and offshore geology is of primordial importance to understand the complete geological history and evolution of the southern African border. The study focuses on the Gamtoos Basin, where the sediment deposits on the onshore portion are generally unfossiliferous and therefore difficult to correlate with the offshore portion of the basin. In an attempt to do this, several datasets were integrated such as old 2-D seismic reflection data and borehole wells. This data, acquired by SOEKER in the 1970s was purchased from the Petroleum Agency of South Africa (PASA). Some data reprocessing involved digitization and conversion of the old seismic data from TIF format to SEG-Y format. Conventional seismic stratigraphic method (Mitchum, JR, et al., 1977) was used to identify seismic discontinuities and remarkable stratigraphic surfaces and units based on reflection configurations and facies characteristics, and ages of these surfaces were provided by well data. Seismic interpretation was first done on printed seismogram papers, and then integrated into the ‘Kingdom Suite’ software to ensure coherency at all crossing lines. Isochron and Isopach maps (using QGIS, Mirone and tools such as GMT) were created. The first results, allow us to estimate for the first time a precise age calibration of onshore deposit. Furthermore, the delimitation in 5 second-order seismic sequences along the Gamtoos Basin suggest a link between different basin filling dynamics and kinematic phases related to the opening of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans along the southern Africa margins. The study shows that the Gamtoos Basin is an essential area linking the geological histories of both East and Western parts of the Southern Africa continent.
- Format
- XXX leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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