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due to their greater buoyancy, eventually breaking through and rising towards the surface. This salt is impermeable, and when it crosses a layer of permeable rock, in which hydrocarbons are migrating, it blocks the pathway in much the same manner as a fault trap. This is one of the reasons why there
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trap is formed by the movement of permeable and impermeable layers of rock along a fault plane. The permeable reservoir rock faults such that it is adjacent to an impermeable rock, preventing hydrocarbons from further migration. In some cases, there can be an impermeable substance along the fault
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In a stratigraphic trap, the geometry allowing the accumulation of hydrocarbons is of sedimentary origin and has not undergone any tectonic deformation. Such traps can be found in clinoforms, in a pinching-out sedimentary structure, under an
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A structural trap is a type of geological trap that forms as a result of changes in the structure of the subsurface, due to
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rock present in this dome shape, then hydrocarbons can accumulate at the crest until the anticline is filled to the
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Gluyas, J. & Swarbrick, R. (2004) Petroleum Geoscience. Publ. Blackwell Publishing
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surface (such as clay) that also acts to prevent migration. This is known as
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Geological structure allowing accumulation of hydrocarbons in a reservoir
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Hybrid traps are the combination of two types of traps. In the case of
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have been pushed into forming a domed shape. If there is a layer of
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is a geological structure affecting the reservoir rock and
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Index

Stratigraphic trap

petroleum geology
caprock
petroleum
hydrocarbons
reservoir

anticline

fault plane
reservoir rock
cap rock
hydrocarbons
tectonic
diapiric

anticline
strata
impermeable
fault
clay smear

unconformity

coral reef
mudstones

evaporite
diapir

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