Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Basin Development and Sedimentation, Arctic Islands

2015 ◽  
pp. 435-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.D. Miall
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Basin Development

scholarly journals Late Cretaceous basin development of the southern Danish Central Graben

1969 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Finn Jakobsen ◽  
Claus Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Seismic Inversion ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Oil Accumulation ◽  
Oil And Gas Production ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Basin Development

The Danish oil and gas production mainly comes from fields with chalk reservoirs of Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) and early Paleocene (Danian) ages located in the southern part of the Danish Central Graben in the North Sea. The area is mature with respect to exploration with most chalk fields located in structural traps known since the 1970s. However, the discovery by Mærsk Oil and Gas A/S of the large nonstructurally and dynamically trapped oil accumulation of the Halfdan Field in 1999 north-west of the Dan Field (e.g. Albrechtsen et al. 2001) triggered renewed exploration interest. This led to acquisition of new high quality 3-D seismic data that considerably enhanced imaging of different depositional features within the Chalk Group. Parallel to the endeavours by the operator to locate additional non-structural traps in porous chalk, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland took advantage of the new data to unravel basin development by combining 3-D seismic interpretation of a large number of seismic markers, well log correlations and 2-D seismic inversion for prediction of the distribution of porous intervals in the Chalk Group. Part of this study is presented by Abramovitz et al. (in press). In the present paper we focus on aspects of the general structural development during the Late Cretaceous as illustrated by semi-regional time-isochore maps. The Chalk Group has been divided into two seismically mappable units (a Cenomanian–Campanian lower Chalk Unit and a Maastrichtian–Danian upper Chalk Unit) separated by a distinct basin-wide unconformity.

Origin of the Upper Cretaceous–Tertiary sedimentary basins within the Tauride–Anatolide platform in Turkey

2002 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ö. F. GÜRER ◽  
E. ALDANMAZ
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Evolutionary Model ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Evolutionary Models ◽  
Volcanic Arc ◽  
Geological Characteristics ◽  
Neotethys Ocean ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
Tertiary Period

A number of sedimentary basins formed within the Tauride–Anatolide Platform of Anatolia during the Late Cretaceous–Tertiary period. Previous studies have proposed different tectonic and evolutionary models for each basin. Geological characteristics of the basins, however, suggest that all these basins are of the same origin and that they followed a similar evolutionary model to one another. Basin development within the Tauride–Anatolide Platform took place in a post-collisional environment following the northward subduction of the northern Neotethys ocean beneath the Pontides. The closure of the northern Neotethys ocean ended with collision of the Tauride–Anatolide Platform with the Pontide volcanic arc and resulted in large bodies of oceanic remnants thrust over the Tauride–Anatolide Platform as ophiolite nappes. Formation of the sedimentary basins followed the emplacement of the ophiolite nappes as they formed as piggy-back basins on top of the underlying thrust ophiolite basement.

Basin Development in an Accretionary, Oceanic-Floored Fore-Arc Setting; Southern Coastal Ecuador During Late Cretaceous-Late Eocene Time

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Étienne Jaillard ◽  
Martha Ordoñez ◽  
Stalin Benitez ◽  
Gerardo Berrones ◽  
Nelson Jiménez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Basin Development ◽  
Arc Setting

Provenance and geochronological insights into Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic foreland basin development in the Subandean Zone and Oriente Basin of Ecuador

2019 ◽  
pp. 237-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Gabriela Gutiérrez ◽  
Brian K. Horton ◽  
Cristian Vallejo ◽  
Lily J. Jackson ◽  
Sarah W.M. George
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Basin Development
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