Appendix 2. Basin evolution Province: West Greenland-East Canada Geographic Location: Northern Baffin Bay Offshore Compiler: Schenk chart for the Eurekan Structures Assessment Unit Assessment Unit: Eurekan Structures Date: 2/16/08 Earth System Basin Evolution Petroleum System Average m.y. RSL Source Global Sea Level 2 Rocks Temperature Curve Geologic Time Scale m 2 % of world’s total / petroleum reserves Modified from Frakes Modified from Golonka and Kiessling, From Gradstein and others (2004) generated by source et al. (1992) and (2002) and Hardenbol and others Barrett (2003) (1998). km mW Modified from Ulmishek and Klemme (1990) Also showing: Oceanic Anoxic Events o o Age Eon Era Period Epoch Ma Elevation/depth - m Tectonic setting Basin formation or uplift Subsidence rate - m/ Paleolatitude Paleoclimate Heat flow - Folding, faulting and igneous activity Source rock Reservoir rock Seals Traps Maturation and migration Petroleum loss 15 20 C 200 100 0m Basin area - Rate of clastic input Sedimentation and erosion M Pleistocene E Gelasian 146,000 Piacenzian 2 Pliocene Zanclean Km 70 NP 45 Messinian Tortonian 70 NP 45 Serravallian 70 NP 45 Miocene Langhian Neogene Burdigalian 70 NP 45 12.5 20 Aquitanian 68 CT 45 Chattian Oligocene 68 CT Passive Margin 45 Rupelian 68 CT 45 Priabonian Cenozoic 68 CT ? Bartonian 40 45 66 WT 45 Eocene Lutetian 66 WT 45 Inversion Inversion Paleogene Ypresian 66 WT 45 Thanetian 66 WT 45 Selandian 60 2.8 Paleocene Danian 64 WT 45 Strike-Slip Strike-Slip ? Maastrichtian 64 WT 45 64 WT 45 ? Sag Campanian Sag Basin 64 WT 80 80 Late Rift Basin Rift 62 WT 80 Santonian Coniacian 62 WT 40 Extensional Faulting Turonian 62 WT 40 Cenomanian WT 45 Sag Basin 62 100 Sag 60 WT 45 Albian 29.0 60 WT 45 Cretaceous 60 WT 45 Aptian 60 WT 45 120 Early 58 WT 45 Barremian 58 WT 45 Hauterivian 58 WT 80 2.6 Multiple Rifts Rift Basins Valanginian 58 WT 80 Extensional Faulting 140 Berriasian Tithonian Mesozoic 25.0 Late Kimmeridgian Oxfordian 160 Callovian Bathonian Middle Bajocian Aalenian Jurassic Toarcian 180 Pliensbachian Early Sinemurian Hettangian 200 Rhaetian Norian Late 1.2 220 Carnian Triassic Ladinian Middle 240 Anisian Early Olenekian Induan Changhsingian Lopingian Wuchiapingian Phanerozoic 260 Capitanian Guadalupian Wordian Roadian Kungurian Permian Artinskian 280 Cisuralian Sakmarian 8.0 Asselian 300 Gzhelian Late Kasimovian 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 Pragian Lochkovian Pridoli Ludfordian 420 Ludlow Gorstian Wenlock Homerian Sheinwoodian 9.0 Telychian Silurian Llandovery Aeronian 440 Rhuddanian Hirnantian Upper 460 Darriwilian Middle Ordovician Lower 480 Tremadocian 1.0 Furongian Paibian 500 Middle Cambrian 520 Lower 540 560 0.2 Ediacaran Proterozoic 580 Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth.