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The Columbus Basin is a foreland basin located off the south eastern coast of Trinidad within the East Venezuela Basin (EVB). Due to the intensive deformation occurring along the Caribbean and South American plates in this region, the basin has a unique structural and stratigraphic relationship. The Columbus Basin has been a prime area for hydrocarbon exploration and production as its structures, sediments and burial history provide ideal conditions for generation and storage of hydrocarbon reserves. The Columbus Basin serves as a depocenter for the Orinoco River delta, where it is infilled with 15 km of fluvio-deltaic sediment.[1] The area has also been extensively deformed by series of north west to southeast normal faults and northeast to southwest trending anticline structures.[2]

  1. ^ Wood, L.J. (2000). "Chronostratigraphy and Tectonostratigraphy of the Columbus Basin, Eastern Offshore Trinidad". AAPG Bulletin. 84 (12): 1905–1928. doi:10.1306/8626c721-173b-11d7-8645000102c1865d.
  2. ^ Garciacaro, E.; Mann, P.; Escalona, A. (2011). "Regional structure and tectonic history of the obliquely colliding Columbus foreland basin, offshore Trinidad and Venezuela". Marine and Petroleum Geology. 28 (1): 126–148. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.08.016.

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