From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Margin

Allard W. Martinius, R. Ravnås, J. A. Howell, R. J. Steel, J. P. Wonham, Allard W. Martinius, R. Ravnås, J. A. Howell, R. J. Steel, J. P. Wonham, J. A. Howell

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781118920466
• eBook ISBN:
  9781118920459
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Margin

The Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), focus of this special publication, is a prolific hydrocarbon region and both exploration and production activity remains high to this day with a positive production outlook. A key element today and in the future is to couple technological developments to improving our understanding of specific geological situations. The theme of the publication reflects the immense efforts made by all industry operators and their academic partners on the NCS to understand in detail the structural setting, sedimentology and stratigraphy of the hydrocarbon bearing units and their source and seal. The papers cover a wide spectrum of depositional environments ranging from alluvial fans to deepwater fans, in almost every climate type from arid through humid to glacial, and in a variety of tectonic settings. Special attention is given to the integration of both analogue studies and process-based models with the insights gained from extensive subsurface datasets.

CONTENTS

1. Cover
2. Other publications of the International Association of Sedimentologists
3. Title page
4. Copyright page
5. Preface
6. Dedication to John Gjelberg, Michael Talbot and Trevor Elliott
7. Generic autogenic behaviour in fluvial systems
   1. INTRODUCTION
   2. AUTOGENIC PROCESSES
   3. FREQUENCY OF AUTOGENIC PROCESSES
   4. ALLOGENIC CONTROLS ON GENERIC AUTOGENIC BEHAVIOUR
   5. DISCUSSION
   6. IMPLICATIONS
   7. CONCLUSIONS
   8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
8. Climatic and tectonic controls on Triassic dryland terminal fluvial system architecture, central North Sea
   1. INTRODUCTION
   2. DEPOSITIONAL SETTING
   3. TECTONIC CONTROLS ON FACIES ARCHITECTURE
   4. CLIMATIC CONTROLS
   5. DISCUSSION
   6. CONCLUSIONS
   7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
   8. REFERENCES
9. Late Triassic to Early Jurassic climatic change, northern North Sea region
   1. INTRODUCTION
   2. GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
   3. DISCUSSION
   4. CONCLUSIONS
   5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
   6. REFERENCES
10. Applying accommodation versus sediment supply ratio concepts to stratigraphic analysis and zonation of a fluvial reservoir
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. AIMS
    3. ACCOMMODATION TO SEDIMENT SUPPLY RATIO: SIGNIFICANCE, RECOGNITION AND TRENDS
    4. APPLICATION TO THE STATFJORD GROUP
    5. CONCLUSIONS
    6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    7. APPENDIX
    8. REFERENCES
11. Investigating the autogenic process response to allogenic forcing
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. QUANTIFYING FLUVIAL AUTOGENIC PROCESSES
    3. CONTROLS OF ALLOGENIC FORCING ON AUTOGENIC PROCESSES
    4. CONCLUSIONS
    5. REFERENCES
12. The autostratigraphic view of responses of river deltas to external forcing
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. AUTOGENESIS AND EXTERNAL FORCING
    3. THE HYPOTHESIS OF EQUILIBRIUM RESPONSE
    4. AUTOGENIC NON-EQUILIBRIUM RESPONSES
    5. ALLOGENIC NON-EQUILIBRIUM RESPONSES
    6. CONTROL OF MANIFESTATION OF NONEQUILBIRUM RESPONSE
    7. APPLICATION TO STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS
    8. REMAINING PROBLEMS
    9. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    10. REFERENCES
13. Autogenic process change in modern deltas
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. DISCUSSION
    3. CONCLUSIONS
    4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    5. REFERENCES
14. Morphodynamic modelling of wave reworking of an alluvial delta and application of results in the standard reservoir modelling workflow
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. PREVIOUS WORK ON QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DELTA MODELS
    3. MODEL DESCRIPTION AND SET-UP
    4. SCENARIOS
    5. RESULTS
    6. LINKED PROCESS AND RESERVOIR MODELLING
    7. DISCUSSION
    8. CONCLUSION
    9. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    10. REFERENCES
15. Sedimentation at the Jurassic–Triassic boundary, south-west Barents Sea
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. TRIASSIC TO EARLY JURASsIC CLIMATIC SETTINGS
    3. STUDY AREA AND WELL DATABASE
    4. LATE TRIASSIC TO EARLY JURASSIC STRATIGRAPHY AND FACIES
    5. DEPOSITIONAL TRENDS ACROSS THE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC BOUNDARY
    6. CONCLUSIONS
    7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    8. REFERENCES
16. Halten Terrace Lower and Middle Jurassic inter-rift megasequence analysis: megasequence structure, sedimentary architecture and controlling parameters
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. CONCLUSIONS
    3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    4. Appendix 1. Core database for the Tilje megasequence.
    5. Appendix 2. Core database for the Tofte-Ile megasequence.
    6. Appendix 3. Core database for the Garn megasequence.
    7. REFERENCES
17. Updated depositional and stratigraphic model of the Lower Jurassic Åre Formation, Heidrun Field, Norway
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. DATABASE AND METHODS
    3. GEOLOGICAL SETTING
    4. DEPOSITIONAL MODEL AND STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK
    5. STRATIGRAPHIC SYNTHESIS
    6. INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
    7. CONCLUSIONS
    8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    9. REFERENCES
18. Depositional dynamics and sequence development in a tidally influenced marginal marine basin
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. REGIONAL SETTING AND STRATIGRAPHY
    3. METHODOLOGY AND TERMINOLOGY
    4. DEPOSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
    5. OVERALL TRENDS: SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY
    6. DISCUSSION
    7. CONCLUSIONS
    8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    9. REFERENCES
19. Eustatic, tectonic and climatic controls on an early syn-rift mixed-energy delta, Tilje Formation (Early Jurassic, Smørbukk field, offshore mid-Norway)
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. METHODOLOGY
    3. FACIES
    4. FACIES ASSOCIATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIONS
    5. STRATIGRAPHIC MODEL AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTS
    6. CONTROLS ON FACIES DISTRIBUTION, PALAEOGEOGRAPHY AND SEDIMENT DISPERSAL
    7. CONCLUSIONS
    8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    9. REFERENCES
20. Tectonic influence on the Jurassic sedimentary architecture in the northern North Sea with focus on the Brent Group
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. GEOLOGICAL SETTING AND BASIN HISTORY
    3. DATABASE AND METHODOLOGY
    4. PRE-RIFT TO SYN-RIFT SIGNATURES
    5. DISCUSSION
    6. CONCLUSIONS
    7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    8. REFERENCES
21. Mesozoic and Cenozoic basin configurations in the North Sea
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. DISCUSSION
    3. CONCLUSIONS
    4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    5. REFERENCES
22. 3D forward modelling of the impact of sediment transport and base level cycles on continental margins and incised valleys
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. MODEL DESCRIPTION
    3. METHODOLOGY
    4. CONTROLS
    5. RESULTS
    6. DISCUSSION
    7. CONCLUSIONS
    8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    9. REFERENCES
23. Tectonic control on sedimentation, erosion and redeposition of Upper Jurassic sandstones, Central Graben, North Sea
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK
    3. STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK
    4. DEPOSITIONAL MODELS FOR UPPER JURASSIC SANDSTONES
    5. TECTONO-SEDIMENTARY SETTINGS A, B AND C
    6. CASE STUDIES
    7. OCCURRENCE OF RHAXELLA SPONGE SPICULES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON RESERVOIR QUALITY
    8. DISCUSSION
    9. CONCLUSIONS
    10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    11. REFERENCES
24. The Garn Formation (Bajocian-Bathonian) in the Kristin Field, Halten Terrace
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. THE HALTEN TERRACE
    3. THE GARN FORMATION
    4. METHODS AND TERMINOLOGY
    5. F...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Other publications of the International Association of Sedimentologists
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Preface
• Dedication to John Gjelberg, Michael Talbot and Trevor Elliott
• Generic autogenic behaviour in fluvial systems
• Climatic and tectonic controls on Triassic dryland terminal fluvial system architecture, central North Sea
• Late Triassic to Early Jurassic climatic change, northern North Sea region
• Applying accommodation versus sediment supply ratio concepts to stratigraphic analysis and zonation of a fluvial reservoir
• Investigating the autogenic process response to allogenic forcing
• The autostratigraphic view of responses of river deltas to external forcing
• Autogenic process change in modern deltas
• Morphodynamic modelling of wave reworking of an alluvial delta and application of results in the standard reservoir modelling workflow
• Sedimentation at the Jurassic–Triassic boundary, south-west Barents Sea
• Halten Terrace Lower and Middle Jurassic inter-rift megasequence analysis: megasequence structure, sedimentary architecture and controlling parameters
• Updated depositional and stratigraphic model of the Lower Jurassic Åre Formation, Heidrun Field, Norway
• Depositional dynamics and sequence development in a tidally influenced marginal marine basin
• Eustatic, tectonic and climatic controls on an early syn-rift mixed-energy delta, Tilje Formation (Early Jurassic, Smørbukk field, offshore mid-Norway)
• Tectonic influence on the Jurassic sedimentary architecture in the northern North Sea with focus on the Brent Group
• Mesozoic and Cenozoic basin configurations in the North Sea
• 3D forward modelling of the impact of sediment transport and base level cycles on continental margins and incised valleys
• Tectonic control on sedimentation, erosion and redeposition of Upper Jurassic sandstones, Central Graben, North Sea
• The Garn Formation (Bajocian-Bathonian) in the Kristin Field, Halten Terrace
• Channel development in the chalk of the Tor Formation, North Sea: evidence of bottom current activity
• MassFLOW-3DTM as a simulation tool for turbidity currents
• The Ormen Lange turbidite systems
• Unravelling the nature of deep-marine sandstones through the linkage of seismic geomorphologies to sedimentary facies; the Hermod Fan, Norwegian North Sea
• Index
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