Role of Cenozoic fault reactivation in controlling pre-rift plays, and the recognition of Zechstein group evaporite-carbonate lateral facies transitions in the East Orkney and Dutch Bank basins, East Shetland Platform, UK North Sea

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue 0, 2005, Pages 337-348

  Richardson, N J ^a,b   Allen, M R ^c   Underhill, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c Shell UK Exploration and   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dutch Bank Basin; East Orkney Basin; Hydrocarbon plays; Inner Moray Firth; Rotliegend Group; Salt pillow; Tectonic reactivation; Zechstein Group

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052536105     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0060337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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