Earth Science Frontiers ›› 2025, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 38-51.DOI: 10.13745/j.esf.sf.2025.5.10

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Study on basement metamorphic rocks of the ICDP borehole SK2 in the Songliao Basin

WANG Pujun1(), GAO Chuancheng1, GAO Youfeng1,2,*(), YANG Zhuolong1, TANG Xin1, ZHENG Changqing1, LIU Shuo1, LIU Haibo1, LI Honghao1, GAO Xiang1, GAO Yuan3, WANG Chengshan3, WAN Xiaoqiao3   

  1. 1. College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, China
    2. Research Center of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China
    3. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2025-01-17 Revised:2025-05-25 Online:2025-09-25 Published:2025-10-14
  • Contact: GAO Youfeng

Abstract:

A long-term International Continental Scientific Drilling Project (ICDP) in the Songliao Basin has been carried out for 18 years from 2005 to 2023. Its technical objective is to drill three wells comprising four boreholes throughout the entire basin strata and obtain a continuous and complete geological record of the basin formation. The total drilling footage is 14455.06 m and total drilling core sampling depth is 8528.19 m. The recovered core length is 8261.67 m, then the overall core recovery rate is 96.87%. This makes the Songliao Basin the first petroliferous sedimentary basin in the world to date that has been drilled through the entire basin formation and obtained a continuous core record of the entire sedimentary basin sequence from the surface down to the underlying metamorphic basement rock. These cores along with logging and seismic data provide the highest-precision geological archives for studying global and regional important geological events. the relevant research has significantly elevated the international academic standing of the Songliao Basin. However, there are still three significant technical problems that have not been resolved up to now. They include (1) The precise statistical results and documentation of coring intervals and recovery rates for the four boreholes are still lacking; (2) The final drilling depth of the ICDP borehole SK2 and its related formal reports remain unclear; (3) The geological features encountered in the final 100 m of the SK2 borehole including rock types, stratigraphic sequences, and logging data have yet to be objectively and comprehensively reported. As the key geological research team for the Songliao Basin ICDP working group, we address the three problems mentioned above. Based on a comprehensive investigation of the full-core data from the ICDP borehole SK2, we identified a suite of dynamic metamorphic rocks within the Middle Devonian basement sequence in the SK2 borehole, spanning the final core interval from 7000 m to the total depth (TD) of 7108.88 m. According to the analysis of the rock types and metamorphic-deformation characteristics, this study provides for the first time a detailed documentation of the lithological assemblages and stratigraphic sequences of these metamorphic core complexes found deep in the SK2 borehole. Additionally, the final drilling depth of the SK2 Well (7108.88 m) and the comprehensive statistical results for the coring data of the three wells and four boreholes are formally presented here for the first time.

Key words: Songliao Basin, International Continental Scientific Drilling Project (ICDP), the ICDP borehole SK2, final drilling bottom depth of 7108 m in the SK2 borehole, metamorphic complexes, Middle Devonian basement sequence

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