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RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PURE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (RJPST )

E-ISSN 2579-0536
P-ISSN 2695-2696
VOL. 8 NO. 5 2025
DOI: 10.56201/rjpst.vol.8.no5.2025.pg133.151

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Sequence Stratigraphy Evaluation of Meren Field Sediment Using Biostratigraphy and Paleobathymetry Approach

Cynthia B Nwadike, Samuel O Onyekuru, Sabinus I Ibeneme, Emelu C Okalla, Chukwuebuka F Dike

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Abstract

Sequence Stratigraphy (SS) studies the relationship between rock matters or formation within a chronostratigraphic system, in which the rock’s sequence cyclic and basically composed of genetically tied layer units. In this study, well logs and biostratigraphic data were employed in the reconstruction of SS framework for Meren 01 and 02 Wells in the Meren Field offshore Niger Delta. A total of thirty (163) samples were examined for microfossils. Additionally, the samples were subjected to detailed description based on their respective lithology. The Gamma Ray (GR) log pattern and microfossil abundance and diversity were used to delineate the sequences to different kinds of system tracts. Accordingly, four depositional sequences were identified comprising of five Sequence Boundaries (SB). The key stratigraphic surfaces which were identified using index microfossils and higher GR count can be used for basin wide correlation. From the correlation chart, the MFS are associated with diversity of microfossils and high concentration of radioactive minerals that gave rise to high GR reading at this surface unlike the Sequence Boundary where fewer or no microfossils were identified with low GR readings. The dated stratigraphic surfaces corroborated with established shifts landward and basin ward according to established schemes. Giving the available data from biostratigraphy and GR log, the environment of deposition was inferred to trend from coastal deltaic to marine. The environments over which sediments of Meren-01 and 02 were deposited have been investigated through the integration of sedimentological, palynological and micropaleontological characteristics of these sediments

keywords:

Biostraigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, Well log, Depositional environment, Meren

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