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2019-2020 RESEARCH PROSPECTUS KANSAS INTERDISCIPLINARY CARBONATES CONSORTIUM Principal Investigators: Evan Franseen Eugene Rankey Robert Goldstein University of Kansas Department of Geology 2019-2020 Research Prospectus KANSAS INTERDISCIPLINARY CARBONATES CONSORTIUM (KICC) An integrated program of research and training in carbonate systems Principal Investigators: Evan Franseen Eugene Rankey Robert Goldstein University of Kansas Department of Geology 1414 Naismith Dr., Lawrence KS 66045 Goldstein office telephone (785) 864-3613 [email protected] 1 Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium Prospectus – July 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS The KICC Program: Broad, Deep, Interdisciplinary ................................................................... 7 Level of support ...................................................................................................................................... 7 KICC Projects Address Industry Challenges ................................................................................. 8 Defining Characteristics of the KICC ............................................................................................... 9 KICC Primary Researchers ...............................................................................................................11 Deliverables ...........................................................................................................................................13 Research Focus and Examples of Projects ..................................................................................14 Summary of New Results Available: ......................................................................................................... 14 Stratigraphic Controls on Facies Distribution in Carbonates ......................................................... 18 Three-Dimensional Heterogeneity in a Complex Ooid Grainstone: Integrated Stratigraphic and Geophysical Study of the Drum Limestone, Kansas ....................................................................................... 19 Physical Oceanographic Influences on Miocene Carbonate Platforms of Central Luconia Province, Sarawak basin, Offshore Malaysia..................................................................................................... 22 Birth, Growth, and Demise of Phanerozoic Isolated Carbonate Platforms .......................................... 25 Origin and Sedimentology of an Extensive Carbonate Breccia: Jelar Breccia, Croatia ................... 28 Shelf Break and Upper Slope Facies, Mid-Cretaceous, Mexico .................................................................. 30 Origin of Paleosols in the Lofer Cycles, Alpine Triassic ............................................................................... 33 Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir-Analog Character of the Rellana Platform of SE Spain: An Analog to SE Asia Miocene Platforms ................................................................................................................... 36 Preliminary Analysis of Carbonate-Filled, Large-Diameter Structures in the Salt Wash Member of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Southeastern Utah: Implications for Correlating Significant Surfaces and for Fluid Flow ............................................................................................................... 39 Ichnological and Lithofacies Trends in the Spatial Variability of the Lower Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone, Mexican Hat, Utah, Area: Dune and Interdune Environs to Gypsiferous Sabkha Deposits ............................................................................................................................................................................. 42 Ichnology and Paleopedology in Mixed Carbonate and Siliciclastic Environments: A Study of the Upper Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Halgaito Formation, Southcentral Utah .................................. 47 Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Character of Miocene Tropical Heterozoan-Limited Photozoan Outcrop Analog Systems in the Caribbean ................................................................................. 51 Controls on Mississippian (Osagean) Inner Ramp Heterozoan Carbonate & Biosiliceous Deposits in a Midcontinent Setting ....................................................................................................................... 55 Build-and-Fill Sequences in Carbonate-Dominated Systems: Towards Predictive Models for Reservoir Characterization ....................................................................................................................................... 58 Diagenetic Controls on Porosity and Permeability in Carbonates ............................................... 62 Radiometric Dating to Constrain Timing of Diagenetic Events in the Permian Basin .................... 63 Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium Prospectus – July 2019 2 Radiometric Dating of Carbonate Cements: Evaluating the Drivers of Fluid Flow and Porosity Evolution in Midcontinent Reservoirs ................................................................................................................. 66 Simulating hydrothermal fluid migration across the Midcontinent Paleozoic region of the United States ................................................................................................................................................................... 70 Relative Abundance of Microporosity in Hugoton Limestones: Characterizing Low Permeability Pay in an Analog for Middle East Giant Fields ...................................................................... 73 Spatial Variability in Microporosity in a Carbonate Reservoir: Lansing-Kansas City Formation, Victory Field, Kansas ................................................................................................................................................... 77 Chlorine and Bromine Isotopic Fractionation and Evolution During Evaporation ......................... 80 Characterizing the Isotopic Fingerprint of Formations and Fluids in the Mid-Continent ............ 82 Effects of Seepage-Reflux Diagenesis on Porosity Modification in Carbonate Reservoirs ........... 84 Superhighways for Hydrothermal Fluid Flow in the Midcontinent: Structural and Stratigraphic Controls on Thermal Structure, Flow Rate, and Reservoir Properties .................................................. 88 Quantifying Processes of Diagenetic Alteration in Mixing Zones: Cementation, Dissolution, and Dolomitization in Special Settings ......................................................................................................................... 94 Modification of Reservoir Porosity by Hydrothermal Fluids: Recognition and Setting ................ 98 Experimental Approaches to Primary Low-Temperature Dolomite Formation in Carbonate and Mixed-Siliciclastic Systems .................................................................................................................................... 102 The Role of Carboxylated Organic Matter in Low-Temperature Dolomite Precipitation .......... 106 Kinetics of Microbial Dolomite Precipitation and Incorporation of Kinetics into Porewater/Basin Evolution Models .................................................................................................................. 108 Salinity Controls on Microbial Cell Wall Character and Impacts on Microbially Mediated Precipitation of Carbonates ................................................................................................................................... 110 Experimental Studies of Geofluid Interactions with Carbonate Rocks in Sedimentary Basins112 Geophysical Signatures of Porosity, Fractures, and Facies in Conventional and Unconventional Rocks and Reservoirs .................................................................................................115 High-Resolution Shallow Seismic Imaging and Seismic Modeling of Upper Miocene Carbonates of the Agua Amarga Basin, SE Spain .................................................................................................................. 116 Ground Penetrating Radar High-Resolution 3-D Imaging of Dual Porosity - Permeability Systems: Imaging Carbonate Lithofacies, Flow Units and Flow Conduits ........................................ 119 Imaging Fluid Flow and Transport in Discrete Fractures Using Ground Penetrating Radar ... 122 Seismic Characterization of Carbonate Reservoirs in Kearney Co., West KS: Patterson & Hartland Fields ............................................................................................................................................................ 125 Post-Stack Seismic Attribute Analysis and Impedance Inversion for Characterization of the Mississippian Reservoir, South-Central Kansas ........................................................................................... 128 Porosity Prediction and Flow Unit Identification in the Mississippian and Arbuckle Reservoirs Using Seismic AVO Analysis and Pre-Stack Seismic Simultaneous Inversion ................................. 131 Seismic Attribute Analysis of the Arbuckle Group from 3D-3C Data at Cutter Field, Southwest Kansas ............................................................................................................................................................................. 134 3 Kansas Interdisciplinary Carbonates Consortium Prospectus – July 2019 Seismic Anisotropy Investigation and Fracture