Abstract
Abstract The Lucina Formation of offshore South Gabon comprises deep lacustrine facies deposited in an early Cretaceous rift lake. Both channellized and non-channellized turbidite sandbodies occur enclosed in deep-lacustrine mudstones. These sandbodies provide reservoirs in the Lucina and Lucina West Marine fields. Dramatic changes in sandstone body thickness occur from SW to NE across the strike of the rift lake. This was a consequence of the confinement of high-density sandy turbidity currents in fault-related lake-floor depressions. Limited palaeoccurrent data from orientated core indicate sediment transport from the SW towards the NE. This represents supply from the ramp margin of the lake towards the fault system bounding the lake along its northeastern margin. The modern Lake Malawi provides an analogue in terms of genetic elements and sediment distribution patterns. In addition, ancient marine turbidite systems such as those of the Oligo-Miocene fill of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, Northwest Italy, provide insights into the relationships between topography in the receiving basin and sandbody geometries.
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