@article{Patruno:2014:10.1111/bre.12081,
author = {Patruno, S and Hampson, GJ and Jackson, CAL and Whipp, PS},
doi = {10.1111/bre.12081},
journal = {Basin Research},
pages = {412--452},
title = {Quantitative progradation dynamics and stratigraphic architecture of ancient shallow-marine clinoform sets: a new method and its application to the Upper Jurassic Sognefjord Formation, Troll Field, offshore Norway},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12081},
volume = {27},
year = {2014}
}

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AB  - This paper presents a new numerical inversion method to estimate progradation rates in ancient shallow-marine clinoform sets, which is then used to refine the tectono-stratigraphic and depositional model for the Upper Jurassic Sognefjord Formation reservoir in the super-giant Troll Field, offshore Norway. The Sognefjord Formation is a 10-200 m thick, coarse-grained clastic wedge, that was deposited in ca. 6 Myr by a fully marine, westward-prograding, subaqueous delta system sourced from the Norwegian mainland. The formation comprises four, 10-60 m thick, westerly-dipping, regressive clinoform sets, which are mapped for several tens of kilometres along strike. Near-horizontal trajectories are observed in each clinoform set, and the sets are stacked vertically. Clinoform age and progradation rates are constrained by: (1) regionally correlatable bioevents, tied to seismically mapped clinoforms and clinoform-set boundaries that intersect wells, (2) exponential age-depth interpolations between bioevent-dated surfaces and a distinctive foreset-to-bottomset facies transition within each well, and (3) distances between wells along seismic transects that are oriented perpendicular to the clinoform strike and tied to well-based stratigraphic correlations. Our results indicate a fall in progradation rate (from 170-500 to 10-65 km/Myr) and net sediment flux (from 6-14 to ≤1 km2/Myr) westwards towards the basin, which is synchronous with an overall rise in sediment accumulation rate (from 7-16 to 26-102 m/Myr). These variations are attributed to progradation of the subaqueous delta into progressively deeper waters, and a concomitant increase in the strength of along-shore currents that transported sediment out of the study area. Local spatial and temporal deviations from these overall trends are interpreted to reflect a subtle structural control on sedimentation. This method provides a tool to improve the predictive potential of sequence stratigraphic and clinoform trajectory
AU  - Patruno,S
AU  - Hampson,GJ
AU  - Jackson,CAL
AU  - Whipp,PS
DO  - 10.1111/bre.12081
EP  - 452
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 0950-091X
SP  - 412
TI  - Quantitative progradation dynamics and stratigraphic architecture of ancient shallow-marine clinoform sets: a new method and its application to the Upper Jurassic Sognefjord Formation, Troll Field, offshore Norway
T2  - Basin Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12081
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bre.12081
VL  - 27
ER  - 

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