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Magnetic studies at Starunia paleontological and hydrocarbon bearing site (Carpathians, Ukraine)

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The Starunia oil-ozokerite deposit occurs in the Boryslav-Pokuttya Unit of the Carpathian Foredeep, which is the main oil- and gas-bearing part of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Starunia is of great interest in studying the relationship between the magnetic properties of rocks, soils and hydrocarbons due to extensive surface microseeps yielding oil and gas, mineral water, and clay pulp containing hydrocarbons. We identified a local negative magnetic anomaly (30–35 nT) with a width of about 700 m within the MAG1 profile. The magnetic high is associated with the area of the largest mud volcanoes in the Starunia structure. Magnetic susceptibility of the soil was measured on a site with three distinct landscape features: a patch of forest with phaeozem and mass-specific susceptibility (χ) of 20–45 × 10−8 m3/kg for the surface topsoil; an area near the volcano and Nadia-1 well with visible hydrocarbon microseepage at the surface and the topsoil showing no visible evidence of hydrocarbon presence with χ = 20–50 × 10−8 m3/kg; and a patch of lowland with gleysols and χ = 10–20 × 10−8 m3/kg. Hydrocarbon-containing clays and soils from the alluvial sediments of the Velyky Lukavets River and bedrock clays near the Nadia-1 well demonstrated high χ values (up to 250–440 × 10−8 m3/kg).

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  1. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 90 Vasylkivska Str., 03022, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Oleksandr Menshov, Sergiy Vyzhva & Tatyana Pastushenko

  2. Carpathian Branch of Subbotin Institute of Geophysics of the NAS of Ukraine, 3-B Naukova, 79060, Lviv, Ukraine

    Roman Kuderavets, Valentyn Maksymchuk & Igor Chobotok

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Menshov, O., Kuderavets, R., Vyzhva, S. et al. Magnetic studies at Starunia paleontological and hydrocarbon bearing site (Carpathians, Ukraine). Stud Geophys Geod 60, 731–746 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-016-0621-2

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