GEOLOGICA CARPATHICA, JUNE 2006, 57, 3, 185—197 Sequence stratigraphy in a classic pull-apart basin (Neogene, Vienna Basin). A 3D seismic based integrated approach PHILIPP STRAUSS1, MATHIAS HARZHAUSER2, RALPH HINSCH3 and MICHAEL WAGREICH4 1 OMV, EOP-AUT Exploration, Gerasdorferstrasse 151, 1210 Vienna, Austria;
[email protected], 2Natural History Museum Vienna, Geological-Palaeontological Department, Vienna, Austria 3Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG (RAG), Vienna, Austria 4Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Manuscript received February 2, 2005; accepted in revised form December 8, 2005) Abstract: This paper presents an improved sequence stratigraphic framework for the southern and central Vienna Basin (Austria) based on the integration of 3D seismic reflection data, well data, surface outcrops and refined biostratigraphy. The 3D survey used for this study is positioned close to the margin of the Vienna Basin, which increases the stratigraphic importance of this analysis. Distal basin facies, so far only known from seismic and well data, are compared and correlated to their proximal equivalents in surface outcrops. The investigated part of the basin is characterized by a syn-sedimentary horst and graben structure, with Badenian (Langhian and Lower Serravallian) platform carbonates on the elevated areas and fine-grained marine clastic sediments in adjacent subbasins. This integrated approach allows the separation of the Neogene sediments in the southern Vienna Basin into five Middle and Upper Miocene 3rd order depositional cycles: the Badenian is separated into three depositional cycles and the Sarmatian (Middle and Upper Serravallian) and the Pannonian (Tortonian) represent one depositional cycle each. The three Badenian cycles are correlated with the TB 2.3., TB 2.4.