Contact:
- Nikolaos Roussos
- Field Trips Chairman
Phone: +302 1087 67 801
Email
: nroussos@hellenic-petroleum.gr
- Mary Ford
- Field Trips Co-Chairman
Phone: +33 3 8359 4878
Email
: mary.ford@ensg.inpl-nancy.fr
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Field Trip 5:
Carbonate Reservoir Types and Evaporite on Zante Island, Ionian Sea
- Date:
- Thursday, 22 November, 08:00 – Saturday, 24 November, 19:00 (trip departs from and returns to Hilton Athens)
- Leaders:
- M. Patsoules, K. Nikolaou (Hellenic Petroleum SA.) and P. Scholle (New Mexico State Geologist)
- Fee:
- US $600 with conference registration
US $630 without conference registration
- Includes:
- Transportation, meals, two nights lodging (B&B) based on single/double occupancy, guidebook and entrance fees
- Limit:
- 30 persons
- Notes:
- The weather is generally mild with rare showers and temperatures ranging between 13° and 19° Celsius. Walking shoes or light boots will be fine.
Magnificent Zante (Zakinthos) Island, Ionian Sea, where Herodotus first described the existing oil seeps in the 4th century B.C. is the location/destination of this trip. We will be touring a carbonate platform with several discrete units (various facies) that form potential reservoir rocks in western Greece. The chalky cliffs are reminiscent of the Chalk of England either in Dover or the Yorkshire Wolds (Flamborough Head). Platform interior facies consist of micritic (chalky) mudstones to wackestones and pass laterally towards platform margins through muddy rudistid patch reef facies and high energy rudist grainstone deposits. Shelf margins are dominated by massive rudist reefs and well rounded rudist grainstones.
Most stops have been planned on or not far from the road and will include:
- Herodotus oil seep, perhaps the first historically described oil occurrence in the world.
- Lithakia quarry, to see the unconformable contact between Late Cretaceous chalky platform limestones and Late Paleocene -- Eocene shelfal grainstones.
- Aghia Marina quarry, where a spectacular channel cut into top of Cretaceous section dominates and is filled with Eocene carbonatic material.
- East side, to see the Triassic evaporites forming the sole bed of the Ionian thrust. Upper Miocene evaporitic sections will be visited and examined.
- Typical coastal cliff exposures -- will also be visited in our way -- showing generalized depositional facies patterns of Late Cretaceous rocks.
- Navayio, where thick-walled rudist patch reefs in near-shelf margin settings can clearly be seen.
Returning to Athens a visit to Olympia archeological site in Peloponnesus is planned, where the Olympic Games took place for almost 1000 years.
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