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Armenian Basins, Provinces 2080 and 2081 Earth System Petroleum System Comments Deposition of Organic-rich Sediments Average Major Tectonic Global Sea Level Curve Geologic Time Scale Events Temperature Eon Era Period Epoch Age Ma 15° 20°C 200 100 0m Lithostratigraphic column Source rock Reservoir rock Seals Traps Maturation and migration Petroleum loss Pleistocene M Pliocene E Volcanism Messinian Gelasian Uplift Tortonian Piacenzian Serravallian Collision of Arabian plate Miocene Langhian Halite, Gypsum Neogene Burdigalian Zanclean 12.5 Aquitanian 20 Brown Coals UMC Chattian Compressional deformation, Oligocene Lacustrine Oil H-S Rupelian Shales and structural inversion, volcanism LMC Cenozoic Priabonian Bartonian 40 Tuffs and Eocene Lutetian Tuffaceous MET Clastic Rocks Paleogene Ypresian Thanetian 60 Collision of South Armenian Block 2.8 Paleocene Selandian Danian with Eurasia Maastrichtian Campanian 80 Late Santonian Obduction of oceanic crust onto Coniacian South Armenian Block Turonian Cenomanian 100 29.0 Albian Cretaceous Aptian 120 Early Barremian 2.6 Hauterivian Sevan-Akera Valanginian Closing of the 140 Backarc Basin Berriasian Tithonian Mesozoic 25.0 Late Kimmeridgian Oxfordian 160 Callovian Ophiolitic Units Island arc accretion Bathonian Middle Bajocian Jurassic Aalenian Toarcian 180 Early Pliensbachian Sinemurian Hettangian 200 Rhaetian ? Cimmerian orogeny Norian Late 1.2 220 Carnian Triassic Ladinian Middle Anisian 240 Early Olenekian Induan Changhsingian Lopingian Phanerozoic Wuchiapingian260 Capitanian Guadalupian Wordian Roadian Kungurian Permian Artinskian 280 Cisuralian Sakmarian 8.0 South Armenian Block - Drift in Neotethys Asselian 300 Late Gzhelian Kasimovian Rifting from Gondwana Middle Moscovian Early Bashkirian Pennsylvanian 320 Late Serpukhovian 0.4 Carboniferous Middle Visean ? 340 Mississippian Early Tournaisian 360 8.0 Famennian Late Frasnian 380 Givetian ? Devonian Middle Eifelian 0.3 400 Paleozoic Emsian Early South Armenian Block - Passive Margin Pragian Lochkovian Pridoli Ludlow Ludfordian 420 Gorstian Wenlock Homerian 9.0 Sheinwoodian Silurian Telychian Llandovery Aeronian 440 Rhuddanian Hirnantian Upper 460 Middle Darriwilian Ordovician Lower 480 Tremadocian 1.0 Furongian Paibian 500 Middle Cambrian 520 Lower EXPLANATION Lithologic Column 540 Carbonate rocks Clastic rocks Volcanogenic and igneous rocks 560 Evaporites Unconformity 0.2 Petroleum System Ediacaran Proterozoic 580 Neoproterozoic Identified presence Snowball Earth Possible presence.

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