Stratigraphy, structure and petroleum potential of the Lady Franklin and Maniitsoq Basins, offshore southern West Greenland

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 221-234

  Sørensen, Aage Bach ^a,b  

^a Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum   (Greenland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Neogene; Offshore West Greenland; Palaeogene; Petroleum system; Stratigraphy; Structure

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; SOURCE ROCK; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 33748306218     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079305-692     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Baldauf, J.G., Clement, B., Aksu, A.E. et al. 1989. Magnetostratigraphic and Biostratigraphic synthesis of Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 105: Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. In: Srivastava, S. P., Arthur, M., Clement, B. et al. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 105, 935-956.
2. Balkwill, H.R. 1987. Labrador Basin: structural and stratigraphic style. In: Beaumont, C. & Tankard, A.J. (eds) Sedimentary basins and basin-forming mechanisms. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoirs, 12, 17-43.
3. Bell, J.S. & Howie, R.D. 1990. Palaeozoic Geology. In: Keen, M.J. & Williams, G.L. (eds) Geology of the Continental Margin of Eastern Canada. Geology of Canada, 2, 143-165.
4. Bell, J.S. (Co-ordinator) 1989. Labrador Sea. East Coast Basin Atlas Series. Atlantic Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
5. Berggren, W.A., Kent, V.K., Aubrey, M.-P. & Hardenbol, J. (eds) 1995. Geochronology, Time Scales and Global Stratigraphic Correlation. SEPM Special Publication, 54.
6. Bojesen-Koefoed, J.A., Christiansen, F.G., Nytoft, H.P. & Pedersen, A.K. 1999. Oil seepage onshore West Greenland: evidence of multiple source rocks and oil mixing. In: Fleet, A.J. & Boldy, S.A.R. (eds) Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 5th Conference. Geological Society, London, 305-314.
7. Bojesen-Koefoed, J.A., Nytoft, H.P. & Christiansen, F.G. 2004. Age of oils in West Greenland: Was there a Mesozoic seaway between Greenland and Canada?. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin, 4, 49-52.
8. Bujak,J.P., Davies, E.H. & Helenes,J. 1987. Biostratigraphy and maturation of 17 Labrador and Baffin Shelf wells and 11 type sections. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File, 1929-1942.
9. Chalmers, J.A. & Laursen, K.H. 1995. Labrador Sea: the extent of continental crust and the timing of the start of seafloor spreading. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 12, 205-217.
10. Chalmers, J.A. & Pulvertaft, T.C.R. 1993. The southern West Greenland continental shelf - was petroleum exploration abandoned prematurely? In: Vorren, T.O., Bergsager, E., Dahl-Stamnes, O.A., Holter, F., Johansen, B., Lie, E. & Lund, T.B. (eds) Arctic Geology and Petroleum Potential Norwegian Petroleum Society, Special Publication, 2, 55-66.
11. Chalmers, J.A. & Pulvertaft, T.C.R. 2001. Development of the continental margins of the Labrador Sea: a review. In: Wilson, R.C.L., Whitmarsh, R.B., Taylor, B. & Froitzheim, N. (eds) Non-Volcanic Rifting of Volcanic Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 187, 77-105.
12. Chalmers, J.A., Pulvertaft, T.C.R., Christiansen, F.G., Larsen, H.C., Laursen, K.H. & Ottesen, T.G. 1993. The southern West Greenland continental margin: rifting history, basin development and petroleum potential. In: Parker, J.R. (ed.) Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference. Geological Society, London, 915-931.
13. Chalmers, J.A., Dahl-Jensen, T., Bate, K.J. & Whittaker, R.C. 1995. Geology and petroleum prospectivity of the region offshore southern West Greenland - a summary. Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse, 165, 13-21.
14. Chalmers, J.A., Pulvertaft, T.C.R., Marcussen, C. & Pedersen, A.K. 1999. New insight into the structure of the Nuussuaq Basin, central West Greenland. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 16, 197-224.
15. Christiansen, F.G. et al 2001. Petroleum geological activities in West Greenland in 2000. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 189, 24-33.
16. Dalhoff, F., Chalmers, J.A., Gregersen, U., Nøhr-Hansen, H., Rasmussen, J.A. & Sheldon, E. 2003. Mapping and facies analysis of Paleocene-Mid-Eocene seismic sequences, offshore southern West Greenland. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 20, 935-986.
17. Dam, G., Larsen, M. & Sønderholm, M. 1998. Sedimentary response to mantle plumes: Implications from Paleocene onshore successions, West and East Greenland. Geology, 26, 207-210.
18. Dam, G., Nøhr-Hansen, H., Pedersen, G.K. & Sønderholm, M. 2000. Sedimentary and structural evidence of a new early Campanian rift phase in the Nuussuaq Basin, West Greenland. Cretaceous Research, 21, 127-154.
19. Davies, T.A. (ed.) 1972. National Science Foundation, contract C-482 by the University of California. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, XII, Leg 105, Sites 111, 112 & 113. US Government Printing Office, Washington, 1-267.
20. De Paor, D., Bradley, D.C., Eisenstadt, G. & Phillips, S.M. 1989. The Arctic Eurekan Orogen: a most unusual fold-and-thrust belt. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 101, 952-967.
21. Haq, B.U., Hardenbol, J. & Vail, P.R. 1987. Chronology of fluctuating sealevels since the Triassic (250 Mill of years ago to present). Science, 235, 1156-1157.
22. Haq, B.U., Hardenbol, J. & Vail, P.R. 1988. Mesozoic and Cenozoic chronostratigraphy and cycles of sea-level change. In: Wilgus, C.K., Posamentier, H., Roos, C.A. & Kendall, C.G.St.C. (eds) Sea-Level Changes - An integrated approach. Special Publication of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 42, 72-108.
23. Jenkins, W.A.M. 1984. Ordovician rocks in the Eastcan Freydis B-87 and other wells in offshore Atlantic Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth sciences, 21, 864-868.
24. Kaminski, M.A., Gradstein, F.M. & Berggren, W.A. 1989. Palaeogene Benthic Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology at Site 647, Southern Labrador Sea. In: Srivastava, S. P., Arthur, M. & Clement, B. et al. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 105, 705-730.
25. Klose, G.W., Malterre, E., McMillan, N.J. & Zinkan, C.G. 1982. Petroleum exploration offshore southern Baffin Island, northern Labrador Sea, Canada. In: Embry, A.F. & Balkwill, H. (eds) Arctic Geology and Geophysics. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoirs, 8, 233-244.
26. 39Ar dating of alkali basaltic dykes along the southwest coast of Greenland: Cretaceous and Tertiary igneous activity along the eastern margin of the Labrador Sea. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 184, 19-29.
27. Laughton, A.S. et al. 1972a. Site 112. In: Laughton, A.S., Berggren, W.A. et al. (eds) Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, 12. US Government Printing Office, Washington, 161-253.
28. Laughton, A.S. et al. 1972b. Site 113. In: Laughton, A.S., Berggren, W.A. et al. (eds) Initial reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, 12. US Government Printing Office, Washington, 25-311.
29. Martinsen, O.J., Bøen, F., Charnock, M.A., Mangerud, G. & Nøttvedt, A. 1999. Cenozoic development of the Norwegian margin 60-64°N: Sequences and sedimentary response to variable basin physiography and tectonic setting. In: Fleet, A.J. & Boldy, S.A.R. (eds) Petroleum Geology of Northwest Eurooe: Proceedings of the 5th Conference Geological Society, London, 293-304.
30. McWhae, J.R.H., Elie, R., Laughton, K.C. & Gunther, P.R. 1980. Stratigraphy and petroleum prospects of the Labrador Shelf. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, 28, 460-488.
31. Mosar, J., Lewis, G. & Torsvik, T.H. 2002. North Atlantic sea-floor spreading rates: Implications for the Tertiary development of inversion structures of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 159, 503-515.
32. Mudge, D.C. & Bujak, J.P. 2001. Biostratigraphic evidence for evolving palaeoenvironments in the Lower Paleogene of the Faroe-Shetland Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 18, 577-590.
33. Nunns, A. 1983. The structure and evolution of the Jan Mayen Ridge and surrounding regions. In: Watkins, J.S. & Drake, C.L. (eds) Continental Margin Geology. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir, 34, 193-208.
34. Nøhr-Hansen, H. 2003. Dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy of the Palaeogene strata from the Hellefisk-1, Ikermiut-1, Kangâmiut-1, Nukik-1, Nukik-2 and Qulleq-1 wells, offshore West Greenland. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 20, 987-1016.
35. Núñez-Betulu, L. K., Riediger, C. L. & Hills, L. V. 1993. Rock-Eval analysis of the Cretaceous Bastion Ridge and Kanguk Formations, Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere Islands, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Abstract A 78, presented at the Geological Association of Canada, Annual Meeting.
36. Piasecki, S. 2003. Neogene dinoflagellate cysts from Davis Strait, offshore West Greenland. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 20, 1075-1088.
37. Roest, W.R. & Srivastava, S.P. 1989. Sea-floor spreading in the Labrador Sea: a new construction. Geology, 17, 1000-1003.
38. Sanford, B.V. & Grant, A.C. 1990. New findings relating to the stratigraphy and structure of the Hudson Platform. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 90-1D, 17-30.
39. Skaarup, N., Jackson, R.H. & Oakey, G. 2006. Margin segmentation of Baffin Bay/Davis Strait, eastern Canada based on seismic reflection and potential field data. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 23, 127-144.
40. Srivastava, S.P. 1978. Evolution of the Labrador Sea and its bearing on the evolution of the North Atlantic. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 52, 313-357.
41. Srivastava, S.P. & Keen, C.E. 1995. A deep seismic reflection profile across the extinct mid-Labrador Sea spreading center. Tectonics, 14, 372-389.
42. 39Ar geochronology of the West Greenland Tertiary volcanic province. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 160, 569-586.
43. Sønderholn, M., Nøhr-Hansen, H., Bojesen-Koefoed, J.A., Dalhoff, F. & Rasmussen,J.A. 2003. Regional correlation of Mesozoic-Palaeogene sequences across the Greenland-Canada boundary. Danmarks og Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Rapport, 2003/25.
44. Sørensen, A.B. 2003. Cenozoic basin development and stratigraphy of the Faroes area. Petroleum Geoscience, 9, 189-207.
45. Umpleby, D.C. 1979. Geology of the Labrador Shelf. Geological Survey of Canada, Paper, 79-13.
46. Williamson, M.C., Villeneuve, M., Larsen, L.M., Jackson, H.R., Oakey, G. & Maclean, B. 2003. Age and Petrology of Offshore Basalts from the Southeast Baffin Island Shelf, Davis Strait and die Western Greenland Continental Margin. Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical Association of Canada, Joint Annual Meeting, Abstracts, 26, 162 only.