3D seismic analysis of an Upper Palaeozoic carbonate succession of the Eastern Finnmark Platform area, Norwegian Barents Sea

Colpaert, Arnout; Pickard, Neil A. H.; Mienert, Jürgen; Henriksen, Leif Bjørnar; Rafaelsen, B.; Andreassen, Karin

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.09.001

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“…The succession is dominated by bioclastic packstones and grainstones in the proximal parts of the platform (Ehrenberg et al, 1998), whereas the more distal parts of the slope to basin are characterized by deposition of large bryozoan-Tubiphytes buildup complexes surrounded by finegrained carbonates and shale (Blendinger et al, 1997;Samuelsberg et al, 2003;Colpaert et al, 2007;Rafaelsen et al, 2008). Beauchamp and Olchowy (2003) …”

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“…The Upper Paleozoic carbonate buildups of the Norwegian Barents Sea have been extensively examined with 3-D seismic data (Samuelsberg and Pickard, 1999;Elvebakk et al, 2002;Samuelsberg et al, 2003;Colpaert et al, 2007;Rafaelsen et al, 2008;Brocheray, 2010). Understanding of the stratigraphic evolution of these carbonate successions is therefore relatively mature.…”

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Morphometric patterns in Modern carbonate platforms can be applied to the ancient rock record: Similarities between Modern Alacranes Reef and Upper Palaeozoic platforms of the Barents Sea

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Morphometric patterns in Modern carbonate platforms can be applied to the ancient rock record: Similarities between Modern Alacranes Reef and Upper Palaeozoic platforms of the Barents Sea

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“…During the late Carboniferous, the Barents Sea Basin entered an intracratonic sag phase and was dominated by regional subsidence (Gudlaugsson et al, 1998). From the late Carboniferous to the latest Permian, the Barents Sea Basin was the site of a regional carbonate platform, with minor clastic input from nearby landmasses (Bugge et al, 1995;Samuelsberg et al, 2003;Colpaert et al, 2007). Gradual northward drift of the continent during the Permian led to gradual cooling and a change from tropical reefs to cool-water spiculitic carbonates in the Kungurian ("middle" Permian; e.g., Worsley, 2008).…”

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Linking an Early Triassic delta to antecedent topography: Source-to-sink study of the southwestern Barents Sea margin

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Present-day catchments adjacent to sedimentary basins may preserve geomorphic elements that have been active through long intervals of time. Relicts of ancient catchments in present-day landscapes may be investigated using mass-balance models and can give important information about upland landscape evolution and reservoir distribution in adjacent basins. However, such methods are in their infancy and are often difficult to apply in deep-time settings due to later landscape modification.The southern Barents Sea margin of N Norway and NW Russia is ideal for investigating source-to-sink models, because it has been subject to minor tectonic activity since the Carboniferous, and large parts have eluded significant Quaternary glacial erosion. A zone close to the present-day coast has likely acted as the boundary between basin and catchments since the Carboniferous. Around the Permian-Triassic transition, a large delta system started to prograde from the same area as the present-day largest river in the area, the Tana River, which has long been interpreted to show features indicating that it was developed prior to present-day topography. We performed a source-to-sink study of this ancient system in order to investigate potential linkages between present-day geomorphology and ancient deposits.We investigated the sediment load of the ancient delta using well, core, twodimensional and three-dimensional seismic data, and digital elevation models to investigate the geomorphology of the onshore catchment and surrounding areas. Our results imply that the present-day GSA Bulletin; January/February 2018; v. 130 Tana catchment was formed close to the Permian-Triassic transition, and that the Triassic delta system has much better reservoir properties compared to the rest of Triassic basin infill. This implies that landscapes may indeed preserve catchment geometries for extended periods of time, and it demonstrates that source-to-sink techniques can be instrumental in predicting the extent and quality of subsurface reservoirs.

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“…On the margins of this seaway, cold water carbonates developed, from the Canadian Arctic, North Greenland and Svalbard-Barents Sea regions (Beauchamp and Desrochers, 1997;Stemmerik, 1997;Colpaert, 2007;Colpaert et al, 2007) over the Ural foredeep, down to the Pre-Caspian basin. The basal sequences of the giant Karachaganak carbonate buildup of northern Kazakhstan, one of the world's largest gas condensate reservoirs (Elliott et al, 1998), developed in the Visean to Serpukhovian on the margin of this boreal seaway.…”

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Carbonate mounds: From paradox to World Heritage

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3D seismic analysis of an Upper Palaeozoic carbonate succession of the Eastern Finnmark Platform area, Norwegian Barents Sea

Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Morphometric patterns in Modern carbonate platforms can be applied to the ancient rock record: Similarities between Modern Alacranes Reef and Upper Palaeozoic platforms of the Barents Sea

Morphometric patterns in Modern carbonate platforms can be applied to the ancient rock record: Similarities between Modern Alacranes Reef and Upper Palaeozoic platforms of the Barents Sea

Linking an Early Triassic delta to antecedent topography: Source-to-sink study of the southwestern Barents Sea margin

Carbonate mounds: From paradox to World Heritage

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