Strontium and Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy of the Petroleum-Rich Upper Cretaceous La Luna Formation, Venezuela

委内瑞拉富含石油的上白垩统 La Luna 组的锶和碳同位素地层学

• 批准号: 0120120
• 负责人: Paul Fullagar
• 金额: $ 1.58万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-15 至 2003-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0120120&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strontium; Carbon; Isotope; Stratigraphy; Petroleum

0120120FullagarThis award will support Drs. Paul D. Fullagar and Timothy J. Bralower, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with Maria Lorente, and Eglee J. Zapata, Universidad Central de Venezuela, for a study to determine the strontium- and carbon-isotope stratigraphy for La Luna Formation, a major source of petroleum in Venezuela. The proposal plans to provide a chemostratigraphy framework (based on strontium and carbon isotopes) that would allow correlation of La Luna Formation sections in Venezuela, and thus a better understanding of its environment of deposition and the accumulation of these organic carbon-rich deposits. This stratigraphy will be an integral part of a nearly completed biostratigraphic-chemostratigraphic age model for the formation. The investigation will enhance our understanding of the processes that control the accumulation of marine Cretaceous organic carbon-rich sediments (CORG) known as "black shales" deposits throughout earth history.