The Ordos Basin

<p>1. Sedimentary and tectonic development of the Ordos Basin and its hydrocarbon potential</p> <p>Section A Relationships between tectonics, sedimentology, diagenesis, and hydrocarbon reservoirs<br>2. The collision between the North China Block and the South China Block, and the resulting event beds in the Triassic Yanchang Formation (southern Ordos Basin, China)<br>3. Origin and evolution of dolomite reservoirs in the Ordovician Majiagou Formation, Central and Eastern Ordos Basin, NW China<br>4. Depositional model and diagenetic evolution of hydrocarbon reservoirs in deep dolomites of the Ordos Basin, China<br>5. Facies shifts in the Ordos Basin (China) along the southern and western margins of the North China Plate as a result of plate tectonics<br>6. Evolution during the Permian from a marine to a continental setting, south-eastern Ordos Basin, China<br>7. Hydrocarbon accumulations in the Permian Shanxi Formation (Ordos Basin, China) as controlled by sedimentary heterogeneities<br>8. Subsidence of the Mesozoic Ordos Basin and resulting migration of depocenters</p> <p>Section B The role of diagenesis in gas fields<br>9. Chlorite coatings of quartz grains and the implications for Permian gas reservoirs in the Ordos Basin (China)<br>10. Gas geochemistry indicates Ordovician marine micrites as the main source rock of natural gas in a weathered limestone reservoir (Jingbian Gas Field, Ordos Basin, China)<br>11. The influence of diagenesis on low-porosity, low-permeability gas reservoirs in the Sulige Gas Field (Ordos Basin, China)<br>12. Diagenetically induced heterogeneity of tight gas reservoirs near Zizhou (Ordos Basin, eastern China)</p> <p>Section C Understanding facies problems<br>13. Facies distribution in the Ordovician Pingliang Formation (southern Ordos Basin, China) and the role of turbidity currents<br>14. When turbidity currents cross contour currents: a struggle for life in the Ordovician along the southern margin of the Ordos Basin (China)<br>15. Predicting the spatial distribution of sandy mass-flow deposits in deep basins by analysis of mud-coated structures</p> <p>Section D Focus on the Yanchang Formation<br>16. Lacustrine sequence stratigraphy: New insights from the study of the Yanchang Formation (Middle-Late Triassic), Ordos Basin, China<br>17. The origin of hyperpycnites in the Middle-Late Triassic Yanchang Fm. (Ordos Basin, China) and their significance for the formation of unconventional hydrocarbons<br>18. Influence of diagenesis on reservoir properties of the Chang 2 Oil Member of the Yanchang Formation in the Zhidan Oil Field (Ordos Basin, China)<br>19. Slurry deposits in cores from the Middle-Late Triassic Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China)<br>20. Late Triassic tectono-volcanic activity and resulting soft-sediment deformation structures in the Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China)<br>21. Middle-Late Triassic muddy gravity-flow deposits in the Ordos Basin (China)<br>22. Debrite/turbidite transitions in the Chang 6 Oil Member of the Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China)<br>23. Reservoir quality of the Middle-Late Triassic Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin) as controlled by sedimentology and diagenesis<br>24. The significance for unconventional petroleum exploration of a good classification system for gravity-flow deposits, with examples from the Yanchang Formation<br>25. Quality of tight sandstone reservoirs in gravity-flow deposits of the deep-lacustrine Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China) as controlled by diagenesis</p>