The Recent Volga Delta as an Analogue for the Productive Series in the South Caspian Basin

P543 THE RECENT VOLGA DELTA AS AN ANALOGUE FOR THE PRODUCTIVE SERIES IN THE SOUTH CASPIAN BASIN The Pliocene Productive Series in the South Caspian Basin Azerbaijan The South-Caspian basin is one of the oldest productive hydrocarbon provinces in the world but also one of the most unusual ones due to the extreme youthfulness of the source rocks and reservoir rocks low geothermal gradient (15°/km) and the extreme depth of the oil window (below 6.5 km). All this is related to the exceedingly high subsidence rate of the basin and the very high sedimentation rate of its filling. The main