Donbas Basin region deep seismic Reflection profiling (DOBRE)

Proposers:
Dirk Gajewski , Christian Hübscher and Elive Menyoli

Members:

Abstract:DOBRE (Donbas Basin region that includes deep seismic Refraction and Reflection profiling) is a multidisciplinary project carried out since 1999 to provide information fundamental to understand processes controlling syn- and post-rift evolution as well as inversion of the intracratonic Dniepr-Donets Rift Basin (DDB) in Ukraine. The DDB is a profound intracratonic rift structure with over 20 km of Devonian and younger sedimentary infill, cutting across the East European Craton (EEC). The initial rift was initiated in the Devonian, followed by extensional events in Early Carboniferous and Early Permian while the Donbas area was uplifted in Early Permian. Compression occurred at the end of the Triassic and at the end of Late Cretaceous (Donbas area). The DOBRE project, therefore, will relate the evolution of the entire EEC to the geological history of larger Europe, especially the formation of comparable multiphase basins along the previously acquired Tornquist Line. The DOBRE project will also provide essential new insights for potential oil and gas exploration in so far not explored structural settings.

The project consist of three phases: