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Armenian Basins, Provinces 2080 and 2081

Earth Petroleum System Comments Deposition of Organic-rich Sediments Average Major Tectonic Global Sea Level Curve Events Temperature Eon Period Ma

15° 20°C 200 100 0m Lithostratigraphic column Source rock Reservoir rock Seals Traps Maturation and migration Petroleum loss M E Volcanism Uplift Collision of Arabian plate Halite, Gypsum 12.5 20 Brown Coals UMC Compressional deformation, Lacustrine Oil H-S Rupelian Shales and structural inversion, volcanism LMC

Cenozoic Priabonian Bartonian 40 Tuffs and Lutetian Tuffaceous MET Clastic Rocks Paleogene Ypresian Thanetian 60 Collision of South Armenian Block 2.8 Selandian Danian with Eurasia Maastrichtian

Campanian 80 Late Santonian Obduction of oceanic crust onto Coniacian South Armenian Block Turonian Cenomanian 100 29.0 Albian

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 Ladinian Middle Anisian 240

Early Olenekian Induan Changhsingian Wuchiapingian260 Capitanian Wordian Roadian Kungurian

Permian Artinskian 280 Sakmarian 8.0 South Armenian Block - Drift in Neotethys Asselian 300 Late Gzhelian Kasimovian Rifting from Gondwana Middle Moscovian Early Bashkirian 320 Late Serpukhovian

0.4 Middle Visean ? 340 Early Tournaisian 360 8.0 Famennian Late

Frasnian 380

Givetian ? Middle Eifelian 0.3 400

Paleozoic Emsian Early South Armenian Block - Passive Margin Pragian Pridoli 420 Wenlock 9.0

Silurian Llandovery 440 Upper 460 Middle

Lower 480

1.0 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

Proterozoic 580 Neoproterozoic Identified presence Snowball Earth Possible presence