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Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 Years of Learning – Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference

Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference Series

Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 Years of Learning – Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference
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The Geological Society of London

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8

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1144/PGC8

Copyright:

Gold Open Access: This article is published under the terms of the CC-BY 3.0 license.

ISBN electronic:

9781786203151

ISBN print:

9781786202772

Publication date:

January 01, 2018

Book Chapter

Tectonostratigraphic framework and depositional history of the Cretaceous–Danian succession of the Danish Central Graben (North Sea) – new light on a mature area

Author(s)

F. S. P. van Buchem

F. S. P. van Buchem

¹Maersk Oil, Exploration Department, Esplanaden 50, 1263 Copenhagen K, Denmark²Present address: Halliburton (Neftex), 92 Park Drive, Milton, Abingdon OX14 4RY, UK

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Correspondence: fransvanbuchem@gmail.com

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F. W. H. Smit

¹Maersk Oil, Exploration Department, Esplanaden 50, 1263 Copenhagen K, Denmark³Danish Hydrocarbon Technology and Research Center, Elektrovej Building 375, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

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G. J. A. Buijs

¹Maersk Oil, Exploration Department, Esplanaden 50, 1263 Copenhagen K, Denmark

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B. Trudgill

¹Maersk Oil, Exploration Department, Esplanaden 50, 1263 Copenhagen K, Denmark⁴Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA

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P.-H. Larsen

¹Maersk Oil, Exploration Department, Esplanaden 50, 1263 Copenhagen K, Denmark

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Doi:

https://doi.org/10.1144/PGC8.24

Published:

January 01, 2018

Abstract

An integrated tectonic and sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Cretaceous and Danian of the Danish Central Graben has led to significant new insights critical for our understanding of the chalk facies as a unique cool-water carbonate system, as well as for the evaluation of its potential remaining economic significance.

A major regional unconformity in the middle of the Upper Cretaceous chalk has been dated as being of early Campanian age. It separates two distinctly different basin types: a thermal contraction early post-rift basin (Valanginian–Santonian), which was succeeded by an inversion tectonics-affected basin (Campanian–Danian). The infill patterns for these two...

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