Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
Authors: Prof. Gregory Smith, Prof. Reza Rezee, Prof. Maxim Lebedev, Assoc. Prof Stefan Iglauer
Date Published: February 2018
Number of Pages: 9
Abstract:
The underthrust fold belt of the Andes contains some very large gas fields in which the Lower Palaeozoic Sandstone reservoirs are buried to depths of over 4-6km. The foreland depositional environment received high amounts of metamorphic and igneous rock fragments and deep burial was accompanied by substantial tectonic folding and fracturing.