Character and distribution of hybrid sediment gravity flow deposits from the outer Forties Fan, Palaeocene Central North Sea, UKCS

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1919-1939

  Davis, Christopher ^a   Haughton, Peter ^a   McCaffrey, William ^b   Scott, Erik ^c   Hogg, Nicholas ^d   Kitching, David ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

^d Shell UK Limited   (United Kingdom)

^e BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forties Fan; Hybrid Flow; Linked Debrite; Turbidite

Indexed keywords

DEEPWATER; EVENT BED; FAN SYSTEMS; FLOW TRANSFORMATIONS; FORTIES FAN; HIGH-DENSITY; HYBRID FLOW; HYDROCARBON FIELDS; IN-CORE; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LATERAL CORRELATION; LINKED DEBRITE; NONUNIFORMITY; NORTH SEA; PROGRADATION; REMOBILISATION; SAND INJECTION; SEDIMENT GRAVITY FLOW; SHORT DISTANCES; SOURCE AREA; SPATIAL CHANGES; SUBSTRATE DEFORMATION; TRANSITIONAL FLOW REGIMES; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

CLAY MINERALS; DEPOSITS; HYDROCARBONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; ROCKS; SAND; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TURBIDITY;

EROSION;

ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; BEDFORM; CORE ANALYSIS; DEEP WATER FORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIAPIR; GRAVITY FLOW; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PALEOCENE; REMOBILIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SANDSTONE; SUBMARINE FAN; SUBSTRATE; TURBIDITE; TURBULENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70350195873     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.02.015     Document Type: Article

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