Stratigraphic change in flow transformation processes recorded in early post‐rift deep‐marine intraslope lobe complexes

The Early Jurassic Los Molles Formation in the Neuquén Basin of western Argentina is a rare example of well‐exposed syn‐rift to post‐rift stratigraphy. In the Chachil Graben, the onset of the early post‐rift stage is marked by drowning of a carbonate system and the development of two deep‐marine intraslope lobe complexes. This field‐based study in the Chachil Graben involved field mapping and correlating eleven stratigraphic logs, and petrographic analysis to document how grain size and texture within intraslope lobe sandstones change from the lobe centre to their frontal pinch‐out. Eight different bed‐scale facies are identified and inferred to be formed by turbulent (turbidites; Type A and B beds), transient turbulent–laminar (transitional flow deposits; Type C, D, E and F beds), laminar gravity flows (debrites; Type G) and post‐depositional clastic injections (injectites; Type H beds). Fifteen lobes form two stacked lobe complexes that show stratigraphic evolution from a lower argillaceous sandstone‐dominated lobe complex, built by transitional flow deposits, to an upper coarser‐grained, sandier lobe complex largely constructed by turbidites. Petrographic analysis quantified sandstone mineralogy, matrix content, grain size and sorting, revealing that both lobe complexes are volcanic arc‐sourced. This study proposes that the differences in the character of the two lobe complexes are due to maturation of sediment transport routes through progressive healing of the intraslope relief, with a concomitant decrease in substrate erosion and flow bulking. Also proposed here is a model for intraslope lobe complex development that accounts for the impact of flow‐confinement on flow behaviour and transformation induced by the inherited topography. Bed type distribution suggests that high‐density flows terminate more abruptly against confining slopes and produce greater depositional variability than lower‐density flows. This integrated petrographic, architectural and sedimentary process model provides new insights into how post‐rift intraslope lobe systems may act as hydrocarbon reservoirs, aquifers and carbon storage sites.

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