Sequence development during uplift: Palaeogene stratigraphy and relative sea-level history of the Outer Moray Firth, UK North Sea

Jones, Robert W.; Milton, N. J.

doi:10.1016/0264-8172(94)90092-2

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“…Regional tectono-magmatic events controlled the relative sea level fluctuations and formed the Early Paleogene unconformities of the North Sea (Jones and Milton, 1994). During the same period, extensive amounts of volcaniclastic material were deposited in this deep-water setting and are source for abundant smectites in the Tertiary sediments (Jordt et al, 1995).…”

Section: Geological Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anatomy of a fluid pipe in the Norway Basin: Initiation, propagation and 3D shape

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Section: Geological Settingmentioning

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Anatomy of a fluid pipe in the Norway Basin: Initiation, propagation and 3D shape

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“…Due to the high concentration of red-stained planktonic foraminifera, Stewart interprets this sequence as representing pelagic sedimentation similar to that recorded in the Rosnres Clay of Denmark (HeilmannClausen et al, 1985), conditions brought about by high relative sea levels resulting from the collapse of the Palaeocene Scottish uplift (Milton et al, 1990). The top of Sequence 10 represents a regional unconformity which is 64 'baselapped' (Stewart, 1987) by younger Eocene sediments produced by renewed tectonism (Galloway et al, 1993;Jones & Milton, 1994).…”

Section: Shelf To Basin Correlation Of the Upper Palaeocene And Lowermentioning

confidence: 93%

“…(1993) present regional frameworks on a scale similar to our study, emphasizing the integration of seismic and well data. Other regional studies on the Palaeogene focus more on seismic geometries related to tectonics (Milton & Jones, 1994) and cycles.…”

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Graphic correlation and sequence stratigraphy in the Palaeogene of NW Europe

Neal

Stein

Gamber

1994

J. Micropalaeontol.

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-A sequence stratigraphic analysis o f well log, seismic, and biostratigraphic data has documented a pattern of cyclic sedimentation for the Palaeogene of the Central North Sea. Previously published research has also documented cyclic sedimentation related to sea lcvcl changes. Integrating Central North Sea subsurface sections with Palaeogene outcrop from NW Europe, using sequence stratigraphic first principles and the graphic correlation method, has produced a chronostratigraphic framework for the Palaeogene of NW Europe.Northwestern Europe basins (London-Hampshire, Paris, and Belgian) have shallow marine t o nonmarine environments, revealing basinward and landward facies shifts indicating sea level changes. The problem correlating NW Europe with North Sea deposits bas been addressed by correlating a biostratigraphy to the decp water deposits outcropping in Denmark. Once a biostratigraphy joining the subsurface and outcrops is built, key bounding surfaces arc correlated between basins. We find that: ( 1 ) scdimentation in thc deep basin occurs as depositional pulses, separated by time-correlative biostratigraphic data terraces (hiatal intervals), which correspond to persistent seismic reflectors; (2) not all sequenc'e boundaries are resolvable by graphic correlation, but the method brackets packages defined by seismic, log interpretation and biostratigraphy; and (3) correlation with outcrops reveals the true significance of the hiatal intervals. .I. Micropalaeonrol. 13( 1 ): 55-80, September 1994.

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“…In addition, biostratigraphical dating indicates that section is missing below these unconformities, even in wells drilled in the deepest parts of the basin. Geological Biostratigraphical analysis allows these sequences to be correlated with the 'T' sequences of Jones & Milton (1994) in the North Sea Basin and Ebdon et al (1995) and Goodwin et al (2009) in the Faroe -Shetland Basin. These BP sequences are also bounded by maximum flooding surfaces and unconformities interpreted from wireline log and seismic data calibrated with microfaunal and microfloral biostratigraphy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Seismic data show that the Dornoch clastics form a prograding wedge that downlaps to the east along a front extending from the Forties Platform across the western Moray Firth and along the margin of the East Shetland Platform as far north as the East Shetland Basin (Rochow 1981;Stewart 1987;Jones & Milton 1994). In the Moray Firth the formation subcrops westwards beneath a transgressive lignite unit that gives rise to a near-horizontal high-amplitude seismic event (Bowman 1998).…”

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Regional controls on Lower Tertiary sandstone distribution in the North Sea and NE Atlantic margin basins

Mudge¹

2014

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Widely distributed deep-water fan sandstones of early Tertiary age form the reservoir for one of the most successful and prolific plays in the North Sea and NE Atlantic margin. Stratigraphic interpretation of a large well database provides the basis for mapping sand distribution and depositional environments in these two hydrocarbon provinces. Sand thickness maps for five Paleocene-Lower Eocene plays illustrate the intimate relationship between pre-existing structural features and sand distribution and facies in the North Sea. Large-scale depositional environment mapping gives an insight into the similarities and differences between basin evolution and sand distribution in North Sea and NE Atlantic margin basins. Both provinces were affected by the same succession of pre-break-up and syn-break-up tectonic and magmatic events that led to early Eocene continental separation and the formation of the NE Atlantic. The impact of these events was muted within the North Sea, which was protected from Paleocene rifting on the NE Atlantic margin by the Scotland-Shetland hinterland and from Paleocene-early Eocene volcanism by its more distant location. However, it was the combination of tectonic and thermal uplift of this clastic source area that contributed the large volumes of sand that accumulated in both these provinces.

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Sequence development during uplift: Palaeogene stratigraphy and relative sea-level history of the Outer Moray Firth, UK North Sea

Cited by 60 publications

References 4 publications

Anatomy of a fluid pipe in the Norway Basin: Initiation, propagation and 3D shape

Anatomy of a fluid pipe in the Norway Basin: Initiation, propagation and 3D shape

Graphic correlation and sequence stratigraphy in the Palaeogene of NW Europe

Regional controls on Lower Tertiary sandstone distribution in the North Sea and NE Atlantic margin basins

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