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We present tectonic implications for hydrocarbon accumulations in the Ural‒Novaya Zemlya Foredeep. Its eastern flank is rich in economical oil and gas deposits mostly localized within the fold-and-thrust belt that was constructed as a result of continent‒continent collision during the Ural Paleoocean closure. On the basis of striking correlation between oil and gas accumulation and fold-and-thrust tectonics we performed geomechanical and petroleum systems modelling that allowed us to propose a new geodynamical model for hydrocarbon accumulations in both fold-upthrust and subthrust structural levels of the Ural‒Novaya Zemlya Foredeep.
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Kuznetsov, N.B., Kerimov, V.Y., Osipov, A.V. et al. Geodynamics of the Ural Foredeep and Geomechanical Modeling of the Origin of Hydrocarbon Accumulations. Geotecton. 52, 297–311 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852118030044
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