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Abstract

Summary

The Arabian Platform is unusually wide, thick and oil-rich. We explain this as due to the effects of melt produced in the asthenosphere during rifting, meaning 1) the plate remained elevated as a result of buoyancy and 2) the plate was thickened by intrusions allowing it extend more than is usually assumed. Later, at break-up, melt was released at the new Tethyan oceanic spreading centre causing the rifted margins to subside rapidly, with the accommodation space filled by prolific carbonates and evaporites.

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2017-06-12
2024-03-29
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References

  1. Marlow, L., Kendall, C.G. & Yose, L.A.
    , 2014. Petroleum systems of the Tethyan region: AAPG Memoir106.
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