Open AccessStructural style of the North Sumatra basin, offshore Aceh
Author(s) -
Muchlis,
Chris Elders
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/796/1/012038
Subject(s) - structural basin , geology , submarine pipeline , extensional definition , paleontology , fault (geology) , extensional fault , seismology , tectonics , oceanography , rift
The Offshore North Sumatra Basin is an underexplored basin. Only a limited amount of exploration has occurred in the past resulting in the discovery of one economic field that is currently producing, a number of uneconomic discoveries and some unsuccessful wells. This is reflected in limited geological studies of the area. This paper demonstrates the importance of N-S trending faults associated with Basin formation in the Oligocene, continued fault activity in the late Oligocene and both compressional and extensional reactivation in the Miocene.