A palynological zonation scheme for the Lower Cretaceous - United Kingdom Sector, Central North Sea

Lower Cretaceous of the southern North Sea Basins: reservoir distribution within a sequence stratigraphic framework

“…The regional theme of this work has identified the North Sea-wide importance of a number of sequence boundaries and MFS's already published in Jeremiah (2000), Duxbury (2001) and Copestake et al (2003). By contrast, a number of unconformities are shown to be tectonically accentuated and localised in extent.…”

“…Fully quantitative biostratigraphical analysis of wells throughout the southern North Sea Basin has been undertaken using key palynofloral and nannofloral markers already described in Duxbury, 2001 andJeremiah, 2000 respectively, together with several newly-recognised events of local significance. This framework has allowed the identification and 'typing' of the key maximum flooding surfaces and sequence boundaries as either regional, eustatically controlled or more localised and tectonically accentuated.…”

Two new Early Cretaceous dinocyst species from the Central North Sea Basin

“…1), has allowed the recognition of two further age-significant dinocyst species, in addition to those described in Duxbury (2001). These are Cerbia monilis Duxbury, n. sp.…”

“…A recent, detailed palynological analysis of sections in many Central North Sea wells has allowed the development of a detailed and robust palynofloral subdivision of the entire Lower Cretaceous (Duxbury, 2001).…”

“…The upper part of the scheme defined in Duxbury (2001) is included in Figure 2, together with some lithostratigraphic and current new species data. Lithostratigraphy is essentially that defined by Johnson & Lott (1993), although the ages of some of the units have been modified (Fig.…”