Avaliação do efeito térmico das soleiras de diabásio nas rochas geradoras da formação Irati (Bacia do Paraná, Brasil) através de técnicas de modelagem numérica

• Autor(a) principal: Corrêa, Luís Maurício Salgado Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/7057
• topic: Parana Basin, Numerical modeling; Heat flow; Modeling of thermal maturity; Igneous intrusions; Bacia do Paraná; Modelagem numérica; Fluxo térmico; Modelagem de maturidade térmica; Intrusões ígneas; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS::GEOLOGIA

To evaluate the thermal maturity and thermal history of source rocks in basins with magmatic activity it is important to consider the thermal effects imposed by igneous intrusions, such as sills and dykes. This work uses the finite difference method for such evaluation, with the transient numerical analysis of heat conduction from Cretaceous diabase sills intruded into the source rocks of the Assistência Member, Irati Formation, Paraná Basin. This analysis has permitted modeling vitrinite reflectance of the shale strata adjacent to the sills. The data of four wells are used from the southeastern portion of the basin, with diabase thicknesses, respectively, of 1m, 2 m, 4 m and 27 m. The numerical simulation includes the process of magma solidification or mineral phase crystallization. The vitrinite reflectance modeling followed a pre-established thermal history of the Irati Formation, using the EASY%Ro program to simulate kerogen maturity levels. Considering the errors built into the numerical model and the thermal history discretisation of studied strata, the acquired values of modeled vitrinite reflectance closely resembled well data analyzed by the traditional method. Major discrepancies were observed in the case of the well containing a sill 27 m thick, but even in this case the high correlation coefficient (0,95) between the measured and calculated values is expected to permit correction of the sill thickness effect in future studies. The numerical analysis correctly simulated the thermal halo induced by sill emplacement, enabling vitrinite reflectance modeling to characterize it as a zone extending both above and below the sill with thicknesses similar to that of the sills. This evaluation methodology contributes to a predictive study of the maturity conditions of source rocks within basins or areas with intrusive magmatism where analysis of the vitrinite reflectance parameter are sporadic or absent.