Petroleum Geology of NW Europe: 50 Years of Learning – Proceedings of the 8th Petroleum Geology Conference
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Multiple episodes of regional exhumation and inversion identified in the UK Southern North Sea based on integration of palaeothermal and palaeoburial indicators
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Published:January 01, 2018
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Paul F. Green, Ian R. Duddy, Peter Japsen, 2018. "Multiple episodes of regional exhumation and inversion identified in the UK Southern North Sea based on integration of palaeothermal and palaeoburial indicators", 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
We present a consistent synthesis of palaeothermal (apatite fission track analysis (AFTA) and vitrinite reflectance) data from UK Southern North Sea wells with the regional pattern of exhumation defined from sonic velocity data. Cenozoic exhumation across most of the region began in the Paleocene between 63 and 59 Ma. Amounts of removed section are around 1 km across the offshore platform, increasing to 2 km or more on the Sole Pit axis. Neogene exhumation within this area began between 22 and 15 Ma, and led to removal of up to 1 km of section. Along the eastern flank of...
- Atlantic Ocean
- basin inversion
- buried features
- Cenozoic
- East Midlands
- England
- Europe
- exhumation
- Great Britain
- heat flow
- Neogene
- North Atlantic
- North Sea
- Paleocene
- Paleogene
- paleotemperature
- permeability
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- reservoir properties
- Tertiary
- thermal history
- United Kingdom
- Western Europe
- Sole Pit Basin
- Sole Pit Field