Regressive and transgressive cycles in a rift-basin: Depositional model and sedimentary partitioning of the Middle Jurassic Hugin Formation, Southern Viking Graben, North Sea

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 207, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 1-21

  Folkestad, Atle ^a   Satur, Nicholas ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Facies; Hugin Formation; Middle Jurassic; North Sea; Sediment partitioning; Sequence stratigraphy; Shallow marine

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EUSTACY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; REGRESSION; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SUBSIDENCE; TIDAL CHANNEL; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; SLEIPNER FIELD; VIKING GRABEN;

EID: 44949097165     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2008.03.006     Document Type: Article

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