Structural setting, geological development and basin modelling in the Rockall Trough

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue 0, 1999, Pages 421-431

  Shannon, P M ^a   Jacob, A W B ^b   O'Reilly, B M ^b   Hauser, F ^b   Readman, P W ^b   Makris, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052540762     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0050421     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (38)

1. BOILLOT, G., FERAUD, G., RECQ, M. & GIRARDEAU, J. 1989. Under-crusting by serpentinite beneath rifted margins. Nature, 341, 523-525. (Pubitemid 20409392)
2. BUNCH, A. W. H. 1979. A detailed structure of Rockall Bank (55°N, 15°W) - a synthetic seismogram analysis. Earth and Planetary-Science Letters, 45, 453-463.
3. CHRISTENSEN, N. I. & MOONEY, W. D. 1995. Seismic velocity structure and composition of the continental crust: A global view. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 9761-9788.
4. CROKER, P. F. & SHANNON, P. M. 1987. The evolution and hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. In: BROOKS, J. & GLENNIE, K. W. (eds) Petroleum Geology of North West Europe. Graham & Trotman, London, 633-642.
5. CUNNINGHAM, G. A. & SHANNON, P. M. 1997. The Erris Ridge: a major geological feature in the NW Irish Offshore Basins. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 154, 503-508.
6. ENGLAND, R. W. & HOBBS, R. W. 1997. The structure of the Rockall Trough imaged by deep seismic reflection profiling. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 154, 497-502.
7. HASZELDINE, R. S. & RUSSELL, M. J. 1987. The Late Carboniferous northern North Atlantic Ocean: implications for hydrocarbon exploration from Britain to the Arctic. In: BROOKS, J. & GLENNIE, K. W. (eds) Petroleum Geology of North West Europe. Graham & Trotman, London, 1163-1175.
8. HAUSER, F., O'REILLY, B. M., JACOB, A. W. B., SHANNON, P. M., MAKRIS, J. & VOGT, U. 1995. The crustal structure of the Rockall Trough: differential stretching without underplating. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 4097-4116.
9. HITCHEN, K., STOKER, M. S., EVANS, D. & BEDDOE-STEPHENS, B. 1995. Permo-Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks in basins to the north and west of Scotland. In: BOLDY, S. A. R. (ed.) Permian and Triassic Rifting in Northwest Europe. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 91, 87-102. (Pubitemid 26456498)
10. JOPPEN, M. & WHITE, R. S. 1990. The structure and subsidence of Rockall Trough from two-ship seismic experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 19 821-19 837.
11. KARNER, G. D. & WATTS, A. B. 1982. On isostacy at Atlantic-type continental margins. Journal of Geophysical Research, 87, 2923-2948.
12. KUSZNIR, N. J., ROBERTS, A. M. & MORLEY, C. K. 1995. Forward and reverse modelling of rift basin formation. In: LAMBIASE, J. J. (ed.) Hydrocarbon Habitat in Rift Basins. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 80, 33-56.
13. LAUGHTON, A. S., BERGGREN, W. A. et al. 1972. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Washington (U.S. Government. Printing Office), 12, 1243pp.
14. LOWE, C. & JACOB, A. W. B. 1989. A north-south seismic profile across the Caledonian Suture zone in Ireland. Tectonophysics, 168, 297-318.
15. LYNCH, H. D. & MORGAN, P. 1987. The tensile strength of the the lithosphere and the localization of extension. In: COWARD, M. P., DEWEY, J. F. & HANCOCK, P. L. (eds) Continental Extensional Tectonics. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 28, 53-65.
16. MASSON, D. G. & KIDD, R. B. 1986. Revised Tertiary stratigraphy of the southern Rockall Trough. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Washington (U.S. Government. Printing Office), 80, 1115-1139.
17. MEGSON, J. B. 1987. The evolution of the Rockall Trough and implications for the Faeroe-Shetland Trough. In: BROOKS, J. & GLENNIE, K. W. (eds) Petroleum Geology of North West Europe. Graham & Trotman, London, 653-665.
18. MOORE, J. G. & SHANNON, P. M. 1991. Late Tertiary slump structures in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 8, 184-197.
19. MUSGROVE, F. W. & MITCHENER, B. 1996. Analysis of the pre-Tertiary rifting history of the Rockall Trough. Petroleum Geoscience, 2, 353-360.
20. NAFE, J. E. & DRAKE, C. L. 1957. Variations with depth in shallow and deep water marine sediments, of porosity, density and the velocity of compressional and shear waves. Geophysics, 22, 523-552.
21. NAYLOR, D. & SHANNON, P. M. 1982. The Geology of Offshore Ireland and West Britain. Graham & Trotman, London.
22. O'REILLY, B. M., HAUSER, F., JACOB, A. W. B., SHANNON, P. M., MAKRIS, J. & VOGT, U. 1995. The transition between the Erris and Rockall Troughs: new evidence from wide-angle seismic Data. Tectonophysics, 241, 143-163.
23. -, -, & 1996. The lithosphere below the Rockall Trough: wide-angle seismic evidence for extensive serpentinisa-tion. Tectonophysics, 255, 1-23.
24. PARSONS, B. & SCLATER, J. G. 1977. An analysis of the variation of ocean floor bathymetry and heat flow with age. Journal of Geophysical Research, 82, 803-827.
25. ROBERTS, D. G., GINZBERG, A., NUNN, K. & MCQUILLIN, R. 1988. The structure of the Rockall Trough from seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection measurements. Nature, 332, 632-635.
26. SCRUTTON, R. A. 1970. Results of a seismic refraction experiment on Rockall Bank, Nature, 227, 826-827.
27. -1972. The crustal structure of Rockall Plateau Microcontinent. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 27,259-275.
28. SHANNON, P. M., JACOB, A. W. B., MAKRIS, J., O'REILLY, B., HAUSER, F. & VOGT, U. 1994. Basin evolution in the Rockall Region, North Atlantic. First Break, 12, 515-522.
29. -, -, -, -, & 1995. Basin development and petroleum prospectivity of the Rockall and Hatton region. 1995. In: CROKER, P. F. & SHANNON, P. M. (eds) The Petroleum Geology of Ireland's Offshore Basins. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 93, 435-457. (Pubitemid 26457903)
30. -, MOORE, J. G., JACOB, A. W. B. & MAKRIS, J. 1993. Cretaceous and Tertiary basin development west of Ireland. In: PARKER, J. R. (ed.) Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference. Geological Society, London, 1057-1066.
31. SINCLAIR, I. K., SHANNON, P. M., WILLIAMS, B. P. J., HARKER, S. D. & MOORE, J. G. 1994. Tectonic control on sedimentary evolution of three North Atlantic borderland Mesozoic basins. Basin Research, 6 193-218.
32. SMITH, W. H. F. & SANDWELL, D. T. 1995. Marine gravity field from declassified Geosat and ERS-1 altimetry. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 76, 156.
33. STEIN, C. A. & STEIN, S. 1992. A model for the global variation in oceanic depth and heat flow with lithospheric age. Nature, 359, 123-129. (Pubitemid 23384817)
34. TATE, M. P. & DOBSON, M. R. 1989a. Pre-Mesozoic geology of the western and northwestern Irish continental shelf. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 146, 229-240.
35. -& 19896. Late Permian to early Mesozoic rifting and sedimentation offshore NW Ireland. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 6, 49-59.
36. WHITE, R. S. 1989. Initiation of the Iceland plume and opening of the North Atlantic Ocean. In: TANKARD, A. J. & BALKWILL, H. S. (eds) Extensional Tectonics and Stratigraphy of the North Atlantic Margins. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoirs, 46, 149-154.
37. -, SPENCE, G. D., FOWLER, S. R., MCKENZIE, D. P., WESTBROOK, G. K. & BOWEN, A. N. 1987. Magmatism on rifted continental margins. Nature, 330, 439-444.
38. VIGNERESSE, J. L. 1988. Heat flow, heat production and crustal structure in peri-Atlantic regions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 87, 303-312