Sedimentary Environments Offshore Norway-Palaeozoic to Recent (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Sedimentary Environments Offshore Norway — Palaeozoic to Recent 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 14
Dedication to Arne Dalland (1945–1998) 6
Preface and Acknowledgements 8
List of Contributors 10
Chapter I. Introductory Papers 16
Sedimentary environments offshore Norway — Palaeozoic to Recent: an introduction 16
Sedimentary environments offshore Norway — an overview 22
Chapter II. Palaeozoic 54
The alluvial cyclicity in Hornelen Basin (Devonian western Norway) revisited: a multiparameter sedimentary analysis and stratigraphic implications 54
Upper Permian lowstand fans of the Bredehorn Member, Schuchert Dal Formation, East Greenland 66
Chapter III. Mesozoic Sedimentology and palaeogeography of the Statfjord Formation (Rhaetian–Sinemurian), North Sea 82
Sedimentology of the heterolithic and tide-dominated Tilje Formation (Early Jurassic, Halten Terrace, offshore mid-Norway) 82
Sedimentary facies in the fluvial–dominated Åre Formation as seen in the Åre 1 member in the Heidrun Field 102
Sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Jurassic Dunlin Group, northern North Sea 160
Divergent development of two neighbouring basins following the Jurassic North Sea Doming event: the Danish Central Graben and the Norwegian-Danish Basin 190
An integrated study of the Garn and Melke formations (Middle to Upper Jurassic) of the SmOrbukk area, Halten Terrace, mid-Norway 214
Middle Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous transgressive–regressive sequences and facies distribution off northern Nordland and Troms, Norway 226
Outcrop studies of tidal sandstones for reservoir characterization (Lower Cretaceous Vectis Formation, Isle of Wight, southern England) 248
Lower Cretaceous (Barremian-Albian) deltaic and shallow marine sandstones in North-East Greenland — sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and regional implications 274
The depositional history of the Cretaceous in the northeastern North Sea 294
Cretaceous faulting and associated coarse-grained marine gravity flow sedimentation, Traill Ø , East Greenland 308
Chapter IV. Mesozoic-Cenozoic Transition 336
Cretaceous–Tertiary palaeo-bathymetry in the northern North Sea integration of palaeo-waer
Structural restoration of Cretaceous–Cenozoic (post-rift) palaeobathymetry in the northern North Sea 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 380
Chapter V. Cenozoic 395
Outcrop-based classification of thick-bedded, deep-marine sandstones 395
Use of integrated 3D seismic technology and sedimentology core analysis to resolve the sedimentary architecture of the Paleocene succession of the North Sea 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 433
Glacial processes and large-scale morphology on the mid-Norwegian continental shelf 453
Late Quaternary sedimentary processes and environment on the Norwegian–Greenland Sea continental margins 463
Accretionary, forced regressive shoreface sands of the Holocene–Recent Skagen Odde spit complex, Denmark — a possible outcrop analogue to fault-attached shoreface sandstone 469
References index 485
Subject index 495