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ASHCROFT, W. A., A. HURST, and C. J. MORGAN. "Reconciling gravity and seismic data in the Faeroe–Shetland Basin, West of Shetland." Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series 5, no. 1 (1999): 595–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/0050595.

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GRANT, N., A. BOUMA, and A. McINTYRE. "The Turonian play in the Faeroe–Shetland Basin." Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series 5, no. 1 (1999): 661–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/0050661.

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TURNER, J. D., and R. A. SCRUTTON. "Subsidence patterns in western margin basins: evidence from the Faeroe–Shetland Basin." Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series 4, no. 1 (1993): 975–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/0040975.

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Lee, D. K., Y. K. Jin, Y. Kim, and S. H. Nam. "Seismicity and tectonics around the northern Antarctic Peninsula from King Sejong station data." Antarctic Science 12, no. 2 (June 2000): 196–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102000000250.

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Local earthquakes recorded at the King Sejong station (62° 13′31″S, 58° 47′07″W) from 1995–96 have been analysed to study the seismicity and tectonics around the northern Antarctic Peninsula. The nature of shallow-focused normal fault earthquakes along the South Shetland Platform is still unclear. Dominant normal fault earthquakes and minor strike-slip earthquakes in the Eastern Bransfield Basin suggest 1) ongoing extension, and 2) transtensional stress transmitted from the Antarctic–Scotia transform boundaries, the South Scotia Ridge and the Shackleton Fracture Zone. A lack of seismicity in the Central Bransfield Basin supports that active seismicity in the Eastern Bransfield Basin is not a result of subduction along the South Shetland Trench. Shallow focused earthquakes have been observed along the NW–SE trending gravity low line between the Central and the Eastern Bransfield Basins that approximately coincides with the landward projection of a fracture zone in the former Phoenix Plate.

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Larsen, Michael, Christian Knudsen, Dirk Frei, Martina Frei, Thomas Rasmussen, and Andrew G. Whitham. "East Greenland and Faroe–Shetland sediment provenance and Palaeogene sand dispersal systems." Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin 10 (November 29, 2006): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v10.4899.

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The sedimentation and basin evolution of the Kangerlussuaq Basin, southern East Greenland has gained renewed interest with the licensing rounds offshore the Faroe Islands in 2000 and 2005, as it forms an important analogy to the Faroese geological setting. The Faroes frontier area is in part covered by basalts and is a high-risk area with poorly known plays and sedimentary basins. It is therefore essential to obtain as much information as possible on the evolution of sedimentary basins on the rifted volcanic margins closest to the Faroese Islands margin. Plate reconstructions of the North Atlantic region indicate the former close proximity of East Greenland to the Faroe Islands region (Fig. 1), and the Kangerlussuaq Basin thus constitutes the most important field analogue with respect to stratigraphy, major unconformities and basin evolution. The study of the sedimentary succession in the Kangerlussuaq Basin, and the provenance of the sandstones in particular, will provide constraints on exploration models and may help to predict the distribution of potential reservoir sandstones in the Faroese offshore basins, and eventually lead to development of play types that are new to this frontier region.This paper presents the main conclusions from two research projects: Stratigraphy of the pre-basaltic sedimentary succession of the Kangerlussuaq Basin -Volcanic basin of the North Atlantic and An innovative sedimentary provenance analysis, jointly undertaken by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) and CASP (formerly Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme). Both projects were initiated in October 2002 and concluded in September 2005. They form part of Future Exploration Issues Programme of the Faroese Continental Shelf (SINDRI programme), established by the Faroese Ministry of Petroleum and financed by the partners of the Sindri Group (see Acknowledgements).

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DEAN, KEVIN, KEVIN McLACHLAN, and ALAN CHAMBERS. "Rifting and the development of the Faeroe-Shetland Basin." Geological Society, London, Petroleum Geology Conference series 5, no. 1 (1999): 533–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/0050533.

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Carr, A. D., and I. C. Scotchman. "Thermal history modelling in the southern Faroe–Shetland Basin." Petroleum Geoscience 9, no. 4 (October 2003): 333–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/1354-079302-494.

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Solari, M. A., F. Hervé, J. Martinod, J. P. Le Roux, L. E. Ramírez, and C. Palacios. "Geotectonic evolution of the Bransfield Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: insights from analogue models." Antarctic Science 20, no. 2 (January 23, 2008): 185–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095410200800093x.

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AbstractThe Bransfield Strait, located between the South Shetland Islands and the north-western end of the Antarctic Peninsula, is a back-arc basin transitional between rifting and spreading. We compiled a geomorphological structural map of the Bransfield Basin combining published data and the interpretation of bathymetric images. Several analogue experiments reproducing the interaction between the Scotia, Antarctic, and Phoenix plates were carried out. The fault configuration observed in the geomorphological structural map was well reproduced by one of these analogue models. The results suggest the establishment of a transpressional regime to the west of the southern segment of the Shackleton Fracture Zone and a transtensional regime to the south-west of the South Scotia Ridge by at least c. 7 Ma. A probable mechanism for the opening of the Bransfield Basin requires two processes: 1) Significant transtensional effects in the Bransfield Basin caused by the configuration and drift vector of the Scotia Plate after the activity of the West Scotia Ridge ceased at c. 7 Ma. 2) Roll-back of the Phoenix Plate under the South Shetland Islands after cessation of spreading activity of the Phoenix Ridge at 3.3 ± 0.2 Ma, causing the north-westward migration of the South Shetland Trench.

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Pearson, M. J. "Clay mineral distribution and provenance in Mesozoic and Tertiary mudrocks of the Moray Firth and northern North Sea." Clay Minerals 25, no. 4 (December 1990): 519–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/claymin.1990.025.4.10.

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AbstractClay mineral abundances in Mesozoic and Tertiary argillaceous strata from 15 exploration wells in the Inner and Outer Moray Firth, Viking Graben and East Shetland Basins of the northern North Sea have been determined in <0·2 µm fractions of cuttings samples. The clay assemblages of more deeply-buried samples cannot be unambiguously related to sedimentary input because of the diagenetic overprint which may account for much of the chlorite and related interstratified minerals. Other sediments, discussed on a regional basis and related to the geological history of the basins, are interpreted in terms of clay mineral provenance and control by climate, tectonic and volcanic activity. The distribution of illite-smectite can often be related to volcanic activity both in the Forties area during the M. Jurassic, and on the NE Atlantic continental margin during the U. Cretaceous-Early Tertiary which affected the North Sea more widely and left a prominent record in the Viking Graben and East Shetland Basin. Kaolinite associated with lignite-bearing sediments in the Outer Moray Firth Basin was probably derived by alteration of volcanic material in lagoonal or deltaic environments. Some U. Jurassic and L. Cretaceous sediments of the Inner Moray Basin are rich in illite-smectite, the origin of which is not clear.

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Fliedner, Moritz M., and Robert S. White. "Depth imaging of basalt flows in the Faeroe-Shetland Basin." Geophysical Journal International 152, no. 2 (February 2003): 353–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246x.2003.01833.x.

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De, Silva Sriyanee. "The petrological evolution of the Devonian South East Shetland Basin." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236333.

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Eriksson, Sarah. "Tracing the Origin of Metasedimentary Rocks in the Faroe-Shetland Basin." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-297082.

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The Faroe-Shetland region has been exposed to a long history of tectonic events and the geology in the area is rather complex. This history has led to the formation large metasedimentary deposits, though the origin of these deposits is not yet fully understood. Possible source areas are Greenland, Norway and Scotland. To give a further understanding of the geology in the Faroe-Shetland basin and its regional relationship this study will analyze metasediments to classify them and compare them with other related sediments. Geochemical, petrographical and isotopic data will be for classification. Through this comparison it is evident that the metasediments from the Faroe-Shetland basin contain remnants from several different deposits and cannot be rated to one specific origin. This is shown by the 143Nd/ 144Nd , 87Sr/ 86Sr and 206Pb/204Pb , 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb isotope ratios found in the Faroe-Shetland basin compared with other possible source areas from Greenland, Norway and Scotland. This has shown that the isotope from the Faroe region correlate well with Caledonian traces from both Greenland and Scotland. Though the Torridonian sandstone from Scotland can also be correlated with the metasediments in the Faroe-Shetland basin.
Regionen kring Färö-Shetland bassängen har blivit utsatt för en lång historia av tektoniska orogeneser och extensioner vilket har lett till geologisk komplexitet i området. Metasediment täcker stora delar av bassängen, men ursprunget av dessa avsättningar är ännu inte helt fastställt. Grönland, Skottland och Norge är några av de föreslagna ursprungsområdena till de sedimentära avsättningarna. För att fördjupa förståelsen kring dessa metasediment och deras regionala relationer till andra platser, så fokuserar denna studie på att jämföra och klassificera metasediment från Färö-Shetland bassängen. Geokemisk, petrologisk och isotopdata kommer användas för klassifikation, medan isotopdata huvudsakligen kommer att ligga till grund för jämförelsen av troliga sedimentära källor. Genom denna jämförelse så har det blivit tydligt att metasedimenten från Färö-Shetland bassängen innehåller spår från flertalet olika områden och avsättningarna kan inte enbart förklaras utifrån ett ursprungsområde. Detta framgår genom isotopförhållandena 143Nd/144Nd , 87Sr/86 Sr and 206Pb/204Pb , 207Pb/204Pb, 208Pb/204Pb, vilka hittats i Färö-Shetland bassängen i jämförelse med andra möjliga källor från Grönland, Skottland och Norge. Detta påvisar en komplex metasedimentär sekvens, en sekvens efter den komplexa tektoniska historian.

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Wright, Kirstie Anne-Marie. "Seismic stratigraphy and geomorphology of Palaeocene volcanic rocks, Faroe-Shetland Basin." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/8487/.

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2D and 3D seismic reflection data in the Faroe-Shetland Basin have been used to remotely study buried, large-scale Palaeocene volcanic structures emplaced during continental flood basalt volcanism in the Faroe-Shetland Basin. The flood basalts were emplaced as thick and extensive pāhoehoe lava flows from multiple sources, including fissure systems close to the Faroese shelf and from volcanic centres within the basin. This thesis has investigated the distribution and internal structure of the flood basalts based on the hypothesis that volcanic eruptions produce volcanic depositional successions that record the temporal and spatial variations of the basin into which they are emplaced. Multiple eruptions will produce cycles of volcanic deposition that are delineated by hiatal surfaces. These successions can be recognised in seismic reflection data by applying seismic stratigraphic concepts in order to gain insights into the evolution of volcanic basin-fill. The Faroe-Shetland Basin contains a variety of depositional environments, including a deepening marine basin where continental flood basalts reached a palaeo-shoreline and constructed an extensive lava-fed delta system >1000 m thick. The delta is composed of 13 seismic reflection units whose stacking architecture primarily records variations in lava supply and accommodation. Modification of the delta front was by erosion and debris avalanches. The second environment is subaerial to shallow marine where the continental flood basalts emplaced multiple lava flows 10 - 60 m thick which coalesced to form extensive and overlapping lava flow fields. Four seismic reflection units have been recognised and record variations in source and supply of the lava flows. During reoccurring periods of volcanic quiescence, fluvial channels 350 – 500 m wide incised across the lava flow fields, constrained by flow field topography. The volcanic depositional successions used to reconstruct the volcanic basin-fill history of the Faroe-Shetland Basin indicate that eruptive styles and volcanic structures varying significantly over relatively small areas (tens of km2). Many of the seismic observations have been compared to outcrop analogues, are scale-independent and are indicative of emplacement environment. Analysis has also led to the development of a volcanic seismic stratigraphic model as depositional patterns produced during volcanic activity are primarily driven by volcanic supply. The results presented in this thesis have many important implications for stratigraphy, hydrocarbon exploration and basin modelling in the Faroe-Shetland Basin and therefore can be applied beyond the fields of volcanology or seismic interpretation.

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Hohbein, Michael William. "Cenozoic contourite drifts and palaeoceanographic development of the Faeroe Shetland Basin." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2005. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/56039/.

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This thesis investigated the palaeoceanographic history of the Faeroe Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic, via identification and analysis of contourite drift deposits using petroleum industry seismic and well data. Integration of regional 2D seismic lines, 3D seismic volumes and high resolution seismic profiles w ith industrial well data permitted full spatial and temporal characterisation of the contourites within the basin, including identification of small scale architectural elements and subtle stratigraphic relationships. In turn, it was possible to make interpretations regarding the palaeoceanographic regime within the basin from the onset and evolution of thermohaline current flow through the basin to correlation with the present day oceanographic situation. Overall, the study serves to highlight the efficacy of industrial seismic and well data for contourite and palaeoceanographic research. A variety of contourite drift types were identified during seismic-chronostratigraphic division of the Cenozoic succession. Identification of an early middle Eocene contourite drift within the southern Faeroe Shetland Basin dates the onset of southerly flowing deep waters from the Norwegian Greenland Sea into the North Atlantic as part of a North Atlantic Conveyor Belt-style circulation system at approximately 49 million years, predating previous estimates by more than 15 million years. The presence of Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene contourite drifts within the basin reveals that following initiation in the middle Eocene, southerly flowing deep water circulation through the basin was continuous throughout the late Palaeocene and Neogene to the present day. A gradual increase in deep water flux through the basin throughout this time is hypothesised based on contourite distribution, and is thought to relate to the global greenhouse to icehouse climatic transition that occurred during the Cenozoic. Pulses of increased deep water current velocity related to a combination of climatic and tectonic factors are thought to be responsible for the formation of major deep w ater erosional unconformities which are associated with the contourite drift successions. A link between contourite deposition and the climatic fluctuations that characterised the late Neogene northern hemisphere is also proposed based on the identification of direct indicators of significant glaciation including iceberg plough marks within the contourite drift units. Contourite drift deposition is interpreted to occur predominantly during climatically warmer episodes, while periods of glaciation are characterised by apparent disruption of ocean current circulation within the basin.

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King, Adrian. "Terminal Palaeocene events in the North Sea and Faeroe-Shetland Basin." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274437.

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Allen, Benjamin Stephen. "The volcanic development and petroleum system evolution of the Faroe-Shetland Basin." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17421/.

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The large volume of intrusive igneous material associated with volcanic rift margins introduces significant uncertainty to both hydrocarbon exploration and subsequent prospectivity. Understanding the habit, emplacement and distribution of such material in the context of rift evolution is essential to understanding the evolution of volcanic rift margins. The recent availability of high-quality 3D seismic data from the rift basins of the NE Atlantic Margin has enhanced our understanding of the 3D geometry and emplacement mechanisms of sill intrusions. Although how these intrusions fit within the wider margin context is often overlooked. The West of Shetland area provides an insight into the process of volcanic rift interaction in a petroleum prospective area. Using multi-client 2D and 3D seismic data this study places reservoir scale observations of sill morphology, distribution and sill-fault interactions within a wider basin context. The study demonstrates that the style and volume of sill intrusion is heavily influenced by the large scale basin structure, the position along the volcanic margin and small scale structural heterogeneities. Given the variations in sill size and frequency there are also implications for the bulk intrusive magma distribution across the margin. Predicting hydrocarbon prospectivity in frontier, or under-explored basins, is inherently uncertain. In order to reduce this uncertainty, sensitivity analysis is performed on key modeling input parameters to define a best practice workflow for undertaking basin modeling in the Faroe-Shetland Basin and similar passive continental margin settings. As the emplacement of igneous intrusions into sedimentary successions has been shown to locally elevate heat flow, the sill complex is incorporated into the regional 2D modeling to investigate the effect sill emplacement has on hydrocarbon prospectivity. The results highlight the importance of determining the timing of emplacement and the volume of igneous material when assessing the potential impact on maturation and generation of hydrocarbons. The modelling suggests that through an appraisal of sensitivity in areas of poor, limited or even absent data, such as frontier basins we can derive a more constrained basin modeling approach that reduces exploration uncertainty.

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Fleming, Jonathon. "The sedimentary evolution of the lower Paleogene of the East Shetland Basin." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/13820.

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Biskopstø, Fridbjorg. "Cenozoic structural and stratigraphic development of the Faroe-Shetland Basin and Faroe Graben." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10818.

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Seismic stratigraphic analyses of the late Palaeocene-Present transitional to post-rift succession in the Faroe-Shetland Basin and Faroe Graben (FSC) on the NE Atlantic volcanic passive continental margin have revealed the occurrence of a early Eocene dendritic palaeo-drainage system and Middle Eocene-Miocene contractional inversion structures. The palaeo-drainage system consists of a significant NNW-SSE trending distributary channel (40km long, 5km wide and up to 400m deep), fed by numerous tributaries (100m deep). The drainage system incised into a major delta system (Colsay Sandstone Member) and was subsequently unfilled and draped by estuarine deposits (Hildasay Sandstone Member and Balder Formation). The excellent preservation of the palaeo-valleys indicates that uplift, incision and subsequent infilling of the drainage system occurred relatively rapid (biostratigraphically constrained to 1.45 My). The uplifting responsible for the incision event at c. 54.75 Ma, earliest Ypresian) was widespread and extends as far as the North Sea (Bressay area) and SE England (London Basin). Furthermore, coeval volcanic activity is consistent with the drainage system having resulted from transient uplift driven by a mantle-plume. This transient uplift event (incision and infill) in the FSC provides important new evidence for the evolution of the ancestral Iceland mantle plume and its influence on stratigraphic development. The inversion structures, developed in Middle Eocene, Oligocene and Middle Miocene, are marked by folding with the syn/post inversion stratigraphy onlapping and thinning over the structures. The location and orientation of the inversion structures suggest that the underlying Mesozoic structural configuration, especially the NW-SE transfer zones, influenced their development. The timing and nature of the movement of the inversion structures in the FSC provide new temporal constraints which help to understand better the controlling mechanism of passive continental margins.

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Walicka, Kamila. "Impacts of basin-scale forcing on the circulation of the Faroe-Shetland Channel." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2019. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=240735.

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The investigation of the role of basin-scale forcing on the circulation of the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) is important to further understanding of the inter-annual variability of the Atlantic water (AW) fluxes in this region. The FSC plays a key role in the transfer of warm and saline AW towards the Nordic Seas that is an integral part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation which is projected to decline over the twenty-first century and might reduce the oceanic heat and salt transports towards the Arctic. So far little attention has been paid to the mechanisms driving the AW fluxes in the FSC, reliable estimates of AW temperature and salt transports time series are lacking. This study presents a new time series of the AW fluxes based on the combination of hydrography and altimetry data. The mechanisms involved in driving the variability of AW fluxes are considered based on observational data and the output from a high-resolution ocean model (VIKING20). The hydrographic observations from 1993 to 2015 show an increase in temperature and salinity of AW. However, there is no evidence of trends in AW volume, temperature or salt transports during the observed period. This analysis confirms that the amount of heat and salt transported through the FSC is dominated by the volume transport. Moreover, this study identifies a bias in the standard deviation of the geostrophic velocity at a depth associated with referencing the geostrophic calculations to the sea surface geostrophic velocity from satellite altimetry. This finding does not strongly influence the AW volume transports in the AW layer, however, it has important implications for estimates of the geostrophic volume transport at depth. This study shows that the Ekman driven up/downwelling and the differential Ekman pumping mechanisms driven by the local wind forcing may influence sea surface height (SSH) and the displacement of isopycnals in the channel, leading to AW volume transport variabilit However, due to the large associated error bars on the surface and subsurface parameters, there is no clear evidence that these mechanisms are significantly responsible for the AW volume transport variability in the FSC. Lagrangian trajectories show evidence of two pathways from the North Atlantic to the FSC that may explain AW variability in the FSC: one pathway involves the flow of warm and saline waters from the Rockall Trough that corresponds to high temperatures and low AW volume transport in the channel, and the other pathway involves the flow of relatively cooler and less saline waters from the Iceland Basin that is linked to low temperatures and stronger volume transport in the FSC. Moreover, we show that the first (second) pathway is associated with the negative (positive) phases of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the ocean gyre contraction (expansion). The changes of the NAO index phases explain 26 % of the AW volume transport variance in the FSC. Another important mechanism that leads to stronger (weaker) AW volume transport is stronger (weaker) pressure gradient across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, reflected by the SSH changes. This mechanism explains 29 % of AW volume transport variance in the FSC.

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Robinson, Andrew Mark. "Stratigraphic development and controls on the architecture of Eocene depositional systems in the Faroe-Shetland Basin." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2004. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55054/.

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A detailed investigation of the Eocene stratigraphy in the Faroe-Shetland Basin was undertaken with a view to developing a basin-wide seismic-stratigraphic framework in order to describe the palaeogeographic evolution and depositional architecture of the basin. This study has tested the applicability of sequence stratigraphy on a regional and local scale and outlines the major depositional controls on the succession. Integration of seismic, well and biostratigraphic data has allowed for the identification of four regionally correlatable seismic-stratigraphic units which document the basin fill history. Depositional systems are controlled by the interaction of fluctuating relative sea-level and local tectonic controls. Early Eocene uplift on compressional fold structures, inherited Mesozoic palaeobathymetry, dynamic uplift from mantle plume activity and prograding lava deltas all control the distribution, thickness and facies of the Eocene succession. Case studies from a basin margin and intra-basinal setting have provided detailed evidence of the localised sedimentary response to changing basin conditions. The use of high resolution 3-D seismic data has enabled depositional sequences and the complex seismic geomorphology of palaeo-drainage systems to be recognised. A cyclicity of sedimentary response is observed in a deltaic environment which documents the evolution of relative sea-level on the southern margin of the basin. Classical sequence-stratigraphic techniques have, in places, provided a useful guide to stratigraphic interpretation and analysis. However, attempts to test the widely used sequence stratigraphic model of sequences as regionally correlatable stratigraphic surfaces have failed largely because of the impracticability of correlating seismic reflections on a regional scale. The conclusion from this is that sequence stratigraphy is a powerful analytical tool that can be applied locally, but is likely to encounter significant difficulties on a basinal length scale. This larger scale correlatability is a corollary of the link between sequence development and eustatic sea level changes. In this thesis, this link cannot be substantiated, and local factors predominate.

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Books on the topic "Shetland Basin"

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Ritchie, J. D. Geology of the Faroe-Shetland Basin and adjacent areas. Edited by British Geological Survey and Faroe Islands Jarđfeingi. Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 2011.

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McCaulay, Gavin Edwin. Slicate diagenesis in the Brent Group reservoir sandstones of the NW Hutton and HuttonFields, East Shetland basin, U.K. North Sea. Manchester: University of Manchester, 1993.

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Great Britain. Air Accidents Investigation Branch. Report on the accident to Sikorsky S-61N, G-BEWL at Brent Spar, East Shetland Basin on 25 July 1990. London: HMSO, 1991.

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Great Britain. Air Accidents Investigation Branch. Report on the accident to AS 332L Super Puma, G-TIGH near the Cormorant 'A' platform, East Shetland Basin, on 14 March 1992. London: HMSO, 1993.

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Report of the Accident to Sikorsky S-61n, G-Bewl at Brent Spar, East Shetland Basin on 25 July 1990 (Aircraft Accident Report). Stationery Office Books, 1991.

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Britain, Great. Report on the Incident to Bell 214st, G-Bkjd Near the Petrojarl 1, East Shetland Basin on 6 December 1994 (Aircraft Accident Report: 1995/5). Stationery Office Books, 1995.

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Stoker, Martyn S. "Submarine Debris Flows on a Glacially-Influenced Basin Plain, Faeroe-Shetland Channel." In Glaciated Continental Margins, 126–27. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_47.

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Reid, William, and Stefano Patruno. "Normal Faults in the Crawford-Skipper Basin, East Shetland Platform, United Kingdom." In Atlas of Structural Geological Interpretation from Seismic Images, 27–33. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119158332.ch3.

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Goff, J. C. "Quantitative modelling of the sourcing of giant oil fields in the East Shetland Basin (Abstract)." In Petroleum Geochemistry in Exploration of the Norwegian Shelf, 161. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4199-1_12.

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Ben Baccar, M., B. Fritz, F. Sommer, B. Bazin, and E. Brosse. "Geochemical modelling of mineral diagenesis in the Brent sandstone reservoirs, Alwyn South and Alwyn North areas, East Shetland Basin, North Sea." In Water-Rock Interaction, 437–40. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780203734049-109.

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Morton, Andrew, David Ellis, Mark Fanning, David Jolley, and Andrew Whitham. "The importance of an integrated approach to provenance studies: A case study from the Paleocene of the Faroe-Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic." In Mineralogical and Geochemical Approaches to Provenance. Geological Society of America, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2012.2487(01).

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Hooper, Robert J., and Ian Walker. "On the Importance of Understanding Why Deep Water is Deep—a West Shetland Perspective." In Petroleum Systems of Deep-Water Basins: Global and Gulf of Mexico Experience: 21st Annual, 507–10. SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC PALEONTOLOGISTS AND MINERALOGISTS, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5724/gcs.01.21.0507.

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Conference papers on the topic "Shetland Basin"

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Hart, Matthew, Guy Hilburn, Sandeep Bhamber, Jason Twigg, Rachel Ward, Steve Drewell, and Simon Baldock. "Imaging the complex geology of the Faroe Shetland Basin, West of Shetlands." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2020-3427586.1.

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Fletcher, R., and J. W. Gallagher. "Advances in Sub-basalt Exploration in the Faroe-Shetland Basin." In 72nd EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2010. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201400958.

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Tyrie, Jeb, Matt Mulcahy, Robbie Leask, Fazrie Wahid, Olamide Arogundade, Iftikhar Khattak, Gani Apena, et al. "Galapagos Field Redevelopment NW Hutton and Darwin in the East Shetland Basin." In SPE Offshore Europe Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/195751-ms.

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R. Goulty, N., and R. J. Davies. "Fluid-escape Features Due to Silica Diagenesis in the Faeroe-Shetland Basin." In 70th EAGE Conference and Exhibition - Workshops and Fieldtrips. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20147553.

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Ebrahimi*, Pouyan, and Priyank Jaiswal. "Enhancement of sub-basalt stratigraphy of Fareo-Shetland Basin using directional-filter." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2014. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/segam2014-1649.1.

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Spitzer, R., R. S. White, P. Christie, and I. Group. "Detailed Insights into Intra- and Sub-Basalt Structures of the Faroe-Shetland Basin." In 67th EAGE Conference & Exhibition. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.1.g035.

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M. Carruthers, R., K. E. Rollin, and M. K. Lee. "Full-Crust 3D Models and Basin Development on the Færoes-Shetland Atlantic Margin." In 60th EAGE Conference and Exhibition. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201408443.

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Hanssen, Peter, Robert Gatliff, Xiang‐Yang Li, Anton Ziolkowski, Helmut Jakubowicz, and Gary Hampson. "Processing low‐frequency data from the Faroe‐Shetland basin for sub‐basalt imaging." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2003. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/1.1817473.

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Druzhinin, Alexander, and Xiang‐Yang Li. "Multi‐mode pre‐processing of long‐offset marine streamer data ‐ Faeroes‐Shetland Basin." In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2004. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1190/1.1845208.

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Murphy, C. A., G. R. Mumaw, and K. Zuidweg. "Regional Target Prospecting in the Faroe-Shetland Basin Area Using 3D-FTG Gravity Data." In 67th EAGE Conference & Exhibition. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.1.p503.

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Reports on the topic "Shetland Basin"

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Brophy, Kenny, and Alison Sheridan, eds. Neolithic Scotland: ScARF Panel Report. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, June 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.06.2012.196.

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The main recommendations of the Panel report can be summarised as follows: The Overall Picture: more needs to be understood about the process of acculturation of indigenous communities; about the Atlantic, Breton strand of Neolithisation; about the ‘how and why’ of the spread of Grooved Ware use and its associated practices and traditions; and about reactions to Continental Beaker novelties which appeared from the 25th century. The Detailed Picture: Our understanding of developments in different parts of Scotland is very uneven, with Shetland and the north-west mainland being in particular need of targeted research. Also, here and elsewhere in Scotland, the chronology of developments needs to be clarified, especially as regards developments in the Hebrides. Lifeways and Lifestyles: Research needs to be directed towards filling the substantial gaps in our understanding of: i) subsistence strategies; ii) landscape use (including issues of population size and distribution); iii) environmental change and its consequences – and in particular issues of sea level rise, peat formation and woodland regeneration; and iv) the nature and organisation of the places where people lived; and to track changes over time in all of these. Material Culture and Use of Resources: In addition to fine-tuning our characterisation of material culture and resource use (and its changes over the course of the Neolithic), we need to apply a wider range of analytical approaches in order to discover more about manufacture and use.Some basic questions still need to be addressed (e.g. the chronology of felsite use in Shetland; what kind of pottery was in use, c 3000–2500, in areas where Grooved Ware was not used, etc.) and are outlined in the relevant section of the document. Our knowledge of organic artefacts is very limited, so research in waterlogged contexts is desirable. Identity, Society, Belief Systems: Basic questions about the organisation of society need to be addressed: are we dealing with communities that started out as egalitarian, but (in some regions) became socially differentiated? Can we identify acculturated indigenous people? How much mobility, and what kind of mobility, was there at different times during the Neolithic? And our chronology of certain monument types and key sites (including the Ring of Brodgar, despite its recent excavation) requires to be clarified, especially since we now know that certain types of monument (including Clava cairns) were not built during the Neolithic. The way in which certain types of site (e.g. large palisaded enclosures) were used remains to be clarified. Research and methodological issues: There is still much ignorance of the results of past and current research, so more effective means of dissemination are required. Basic inventory information (e.g. the Scottish Human Remains Database) needs to be compiled, and Canmore and museum database information needs to be updated and expanded – and, where not already available online, placed online, preferably with a Scottish Neolithic e-hub that directs the enquirer to all the available sources of information. The Historic Scotland on-line radiocarbon date inventory needs to be resurrected and kept up to date. Under-used resources, including the rich aerial photography archive in the NMRS, need to have their potential fully exploited. Multi-disciplinary, collaborative research (and the application of GIS modelling to spatial data in order to process the results) is vital if we are to escape from the current ‘silo’ approach and address key research questions from a range of perspectives; and awareness of relevant research outside Scotland is essential if we are to avoid reinventing the wheel. Our perspective needs to encompass multi-scale approaches, so that ScARF Neolithic Panel Report iv developments within Scotland can be understood at a local, regional and wider level. Most importantly, the right questions need to be framed, and the right research strategies need to be developed, in order to extract the maximum amount of information about the Scottish Neolithic.

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