Sedimentary environments offshore Norway--Palaeozoic to Recent : proceedings of the Norwegian Petroleum Society Conference, 3-5 May 1999, Bergen, Norway

Required reading for geologists working in the offshore areas, Volume 10 continues the series from the Norwegian Petroleum Society. This work provides an up-to-date review of the late Palaeozoic to present sedimentary history of the Norwegian offshore areas in the North Sea and Mid-Norway basins. Case studies, overview articles and analogue examples from adjacent areas such as Greenland and Denmark, present new ideas on the development of the Norwegian margin from the Carboniferous through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.In particular, new evidence and interpretations are presented on well-known major reservoir-bearing successions such as the Statfjord Formation and Dunlin Group in the Northern North Sea, and the Åre and the Tilje Formations in the Mid-Norway area. Furthermore, the Upper Jurassic succession in the Haltenbanken area is described, giving new evidence on the interplay between extensional tectonics and sedimentation during the second major rift phase in the area.The Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods are treated extensively, showing their importance as overall deep water sedimentary systems with proven and potential reservoir rocks, such as in the Ormen Lange Field, and for causing burial of Jurassic rocks to advantageous depths for hydrocarbon generation. The Recent sedimentary history of the Norwegian margin is treated with examples of the glacial history and giant submarine slides which understanding is vital for the placement of offshore installations.The book is organised based on geologic time, from Palaeozoic through Mesozoic to Cenozoic examples. It includes a set of palaeogeographic maps from the Carboniferous through to the Cenozoic. In addition, there are numerous examples of core photographs, well log data, correlation panels and seismic as well as outcrop photographs and logs from the analogue examples. Comprehensive reference and keyword lists are also included. Front Cover......Page 1 Sedimentary Environments Offshore Norway — Palaeozoic to Recent......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 14 Dedication to Arne Dalland (1945–1998)......Page 6 Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 10 Sedimentary environments offshore Norway — Palaeozoic to Recent: an introduction......Page 16 Sedimentary environments offshore Norway — an overview......Page 22 The alluvial cyclicity in Hornelen Basin (Devonian western Norway) revisited: a multiparameter sedimentary analysis and stratigraphic implications......Page 54 Upper Permian lowstand fans of the Bredehorn Member, Schuchert Dal Formation, East Greenland......Page 66 Sedimentology of the heterolithic and tide-dominated Tilje Formation (Early Jurassic, Halten Terrace, offshore mid-Norway)......Page 82 Sedimentary facies in the fluvial–dominated Åre Formation as seen in the Åre 1 member in the Heidrun Field......Page 102 Sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Jurassic Dunlin Group, northern North Sea......Page 160 Divergent development of two neighbouring basins following the Jurassic North Sea Doming event: the Danish Central Graben and the Norwegian-Danish Basin......Page 190 An integrated study of the Garn and Melke formations (Middle to Upper Jurassic) of the SmOrbukk area, Halten Terrace, mid-Norway......Page 214 Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous transgressive–regressive sequences and facies distribution off northern Nordland and Troms, Norway......Page 226 Outcrop studies of tidal sandstones for reservoir characterization (Lower Cretaceous Vectis Formation, Isle of Wight, southern England)......Page 248 Lower Cretaceous (Barremian-Albian) deltaic and shallow marine sandstones in North-East Greenland — sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and regional implications......Page 274 The depositional history of the Cretaceous in the northeastern North Sea......Page 294 Cretaceous faulting and associated coarse-grained marine gravity flow sedimentation, Traill Ø , East Greenland......Page 308 Cretaceous–Tertiary palaeo-bathymetry in the northern North Sea; integration of palaeo-waer......Page 336 Structural restoration of Cretaceous–Cenozoic (post-rift) palaeobathymetry in the northern North Sea......Page 362 The reconstruction and analysis of palaeowater depths: a new approach and test of micro- palaeontological approaches in the post-rift (Cretaceous to Quaternary) interval of the northern North Sea......Page 380 Outcrop-based classification of thick-bedded, deep-marine sandstones......Page 395 Use of integrated 3D seismic technology and sedimentology core analysis to resolve the sedimentary architecture of the Paleocene succession of the North Sea......Page 419 The Maastrichtian and Danian depositional setting, along the eastern margin of the Møre Basin (Mid-Norwegian Shelf): implications for reservoir development of the Ormen Lange Field......Page 433 Glacial processes and large-scale morphology on the mid-Norwegian continental shelf......Page 453 Late Quaternary sedimentary processes and environment on the Norwegian–Greenland Sea continental margins......Page 463 Accretionary, forced regressive shoreface sands of the Holocene–Recent Skagen Odde spit complex, Denmark — a possible outcrop analogue to fault-attached shoreface sandstone......Page 469 References index......Page 485 Subject index......Page 495 Required reading for geologists working in the offshore areas, Volume 10 continues the series from the Norwegian Petroleum Society.

This work provides an up-to-date review of the late Palaeozoic to present sedimentary history of the Norwegian offshore areas in the North Sea and Mid-Norway basins. Case studies, overview articles and analogue examples from adjacent areas such as Greenland and Denmark, present new ideas on the development of the Norwegian margin from the Carboniferous through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

In particular, new evidence and interpretations are presented on well-known major reservoir-bearing successions such as the Statfjord Formation and Dunlin Group in the Northern North Sea, and the Åre and the Tilje Formations in the Mid-Norway area. Furthermore, the Upper Jurassic succession in the Haltenbanken area is described, giving new evidence on the interplay between extensional tectonics and sedimentation during the second major rift phase in the area.

The Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods are treated extensively, showing their importance as overall deep water sedimentary systems with proven and potential reservoir rocks, such as in the Ormen Lange Field, and for causing burial of Jurassic rocks to advantageous depths for hydrocarbon generation. The Recent sedimentary history of the Norwegian margin is treated with examples of the glacial history and giant submarine slides which understanding is vital for the placement of offshore installations.

The book is organised based on geologic time, from Palaeozoic through Mesozoic to Cenozoic examples. It includes a set of palaeogeographic maps from the Carboniferous through to the Cenozoic. In addition, there are numerous examples of core photographs, well log data, correlation panels and seismic as well as outcrop photographs and logs from the analogue examples. Comprehensive reference and keyword lists are also included.
Provides a review of the late Palaeozoic to sedimentary history of the Norwegian offshore areas in the North Sea and Mid-Norway basins. Useful for geologists working in the offshore areas, this work continues the series from the Norwegian Petroleum Society. Full text e-book available as part of the Elsevier ScienceDirect Earth and Planetary Sciences subject collection