Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 Years of Learning – Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference
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Tectonostratigraphic framework and depositional history of the Cretaceous–Danian succession of the Danish Central Graben (North Sea) – new light on a mature area
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Published:January 01, 2018
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F. S. P. van Buchem, F. W. H. Smit, G. J. A. Buijs, B. Trudgill, P.-H. Larsen, 2018. "Tectonostratigraphic framework and depositional history of the Cretaceous–Danian succession of the Danish Central Graben (North Sea) – new light on a mature area", Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 Years of Learning – Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference, M. Bowman, B. Levell
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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...
- algae
- Atlantic Ocean
- basins
- benthic taxa
- biostratigraphy
- carbonate rocks
- Cenozoic
- Central Graben
- chalk
- clastic rocks
- claystone
- Coccolithophoraceae
- Coccolithus
- Cretaceous
- Danian
- Denmark
- depositional environment
- Europe
- Foraminifera
- geophysical methods
- lower Paleocene
- Mesozoic
- microfossils
- nannofossils
- natural gas
- North Atlantic
- North Sea
- oil and gas fields
- paleo-oceanography
- Paleocene
- Paleogene
- paleogeography
- palynomorphs
- petroleum
- reservoir properties
- Scandinavia
- sedimentary basins
- sedimentary rocks
- seismic methods
- sequence stratigraphy
- structural traps
- tectonostratigraphic units
- Tertiary
- three-dimensional models
- traps
- Upper Cretaceous
- Valhall Field
- Western Europe
- Chalk Group
- Cromer Knoll Group
- Danish Central Graben