Geology, geography and global energy

Scientific and Technical Journal

REGIONAL TECTONIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WEST-KUBAN TROUGH

2019. №1, pp. 16-20

Glebova Lyubov V. - C.Sc. in Geological and Mineralogical, Senior Lecturer, Lomonosov Moscow State University, lvglebova@mail.ru

Menshikova Darya S. - undergraduate, Lomonosov Moscow State University, dar.cergeevna@gmail.com

The relevance of researches is that West Kuban deflection is a geological structure, of sublatitudinal stretch. The deflection, as a marginal deflection, was formed in the upper Miocene at the very beginning of the Greater Caucasus orogenesis. Two structural complexes play an important role in the geological structure of the West Kuban trough: displaced and metamorphosed Dozozoic rocks and the Mesozoic-Cenozoic sedimentary cover. Content of the West Kuban trough sediments is represented by the Lower-Middle Jurassic complex (J1-2); Lower Cretaceous complex (K1) associated with large gas condensate fields; Upper Cretaceous complex (K2). Cenozoic deposits (KZ) are represented by Paleogene (P), Neogene (N), and Quaternary (Q) systems.

Key words: геологическое строение, Западно-Кубанский прогиб, простирание пластов, терригенные коллекторы, geological structure, West Kuban deflection, formation strike, terrigenous reservoirs

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