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VI, 447 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
1897799845
Series Statement:
Geological Society special publication 124
Content:
The exploration for hydrocarbons in the sedimentary basins to the west of mainland Britain has taken something of a backseat role when compared to the more prolific basins of the North Sea. Despite this, significant discoveries have been made over the last 25 or so years by those companies determined to pursue this distinctive hydrocarbon province. The first major reward in the area was the discovery of the giant Morecambe Gas Field in the 1970s, the second added more than a dozen oil and gas fields between 1990 and 1995, including the Lennox and Douglas Oil Fields. It was the improvements in the geological understanding of the area that occurred concomitant with these later discoveries which inspired the Burlington House conference in 1995 from which this volume has resulted.
The volume addresses all aspects of the petroleum geology, not only in the East Irish Sea Basin, but in the adjacent Cheshire, Solway, Carlisle and North Channel Basins, as well as dealing with regional aspects of the structure and evolution of the area. It is the hope of the editors that bringing all of this work together in one volume will provide encouragement and inspiration to those currently, or in the future, looking west for their exploration.
Note:
V. S. Colter: The East Irish Sea Basin — from caterpillar to butterfly, a thirty-year metamorphosis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:1-9, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.01 ---
Stratigraphy ---
D. I. Jackson, H. Johnson, and N. J. P. Smith: Stratigraphical relationships and a revised lithostratigraphical nomenclature for the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic rocks of the offshore East Irish Sea Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:11-32, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.02 ---
Geoffrey Warrington: The Penarth Group-Lias Group succession (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic) in the East Irish Sea Basin and neighbouring areas: a stratigraphical review / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:33-46, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.03 ---
Regional Structure ---
John C. W. Cope: The Mesozoic and Tertiary history of the Irish Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:47-59, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.04 ---
R. W. England and N. J. Soper: Lower crustal structure of the East Irish Sea from deep seismic reflection data / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:61-72, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.05 ---
Paul F. Green, Ian R. Duddy, and Richard J. Bray: Variation in thermal history styles around the Irish Sea and adjacent areas: implications for hydrocarbon occurrence and tectonic evolution / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:73-93, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.06 ---
Basin Analysis ---
Steven J. Maddox, Richard A. Blow, and Sean R. O’Brien: The geology and hydrocarbon prospectivity of the North Channel Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:95-111, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.07 ---
Rob Shelton: Tectonic evolution of the Larne Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:113-133, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.08 ---
D. G. Quirk and G. S. Kimbell: Structural evolution of the Isle of Man and central part of the Irish Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:135-159, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.09 ---
P. W. Mikkelsen and J. B. Floodpage: The hydrocarbon potential of the Cheshire Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:161-183, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.10 ---
A. Francis, M. Millwood Hargrave, P. Mulholland, and D. Williams: Real and relict direct hydrocarbon indicators in the East Irish Sea Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:185-194, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.11 ---
Geochemistry ---
James P. Armstrong, Janet Smith, Victor A. A. D’Elia, and Stephen P. Trueblood: The occurrence and correlation of oils and Namurian source rocks in the Liverpool Bay-North Wales area / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:195-211, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.12 ---
John Parnell: Fluid migration history in the north Irish Sea-North Channel region / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:213-228, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.13 ---
Caroline Mcgovern-Traa, Jyh-Yih Leu, W. Allan Hamilton, Iain S. C. Spark, and Ian T. M. Patey: The presence of sulphate-reducing bacteria in live drilling muds, core materials and reservoir formation brine from new oilfields / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:229-236, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.14 ---
Sedimentology ---
Jillian Thompson and Neil S. Meadows: Clastic sabkhas and diachroneity at the top of the Sherwood Sandstone Group: East Irish Sea Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:237-251, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.15 ---
Robert D. Herries and Greig Cowan: Challenging the ‘sheetflood’ myth: the role of water-table-controlled sabkha deposits in redefining the depositional model for the Ormskirk Sandstone Formation (Lower Triassic), East Irish Sea Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:253-276, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.16 ---
Jim Ward: Early Dinantian evaporites of the Easton-1 well, Solway Basin, onshore, Cumbria, England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:277-296, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.17 ---
Fault Analysis and Diagenesis ---
R. A. Chadwick: Fault analysis of the Cheshire Basin, NW England / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:297-313, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.18 ---
Alastair Beach, J. Lawson Brown, Alastair I. Welbon, Jean E. McCallum, Paul Brockbank, and Steven Knott: Characteristics of fault zones in sandstones from NW England: application to fault transmissibility / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:315-324, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.19 ---
John Rowe and Stuart D. Burley: Faulting and porosity modification in the Sherwood Sandstone at Alderley Edge, northeastern Cheshire: an exhumed example of fault-related diagenesis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:325-352, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.20 ---
P. J. Greenwood and S. M. Habesch: Diagenesis of the Sherwood Sandstone Group in the southern East Irish Sea Basin (Blocks 110/13, 110/14 and 110/15): constraints from preliminary isotopic and fluid inclusion studies / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:353-371, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.21 ---
Field Studies ---
Greig Cowan and Joanna Bradney: Regional diagenetic controls on reservoir properties in the Millom accumulation: implications for field development / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:373-386, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.22 ---
R. A. Blow and M. Hardman: Calder Field appraisal well 110/7a-8, East Irish Sea Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:387-397, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.23 ---
A. M. Yaliz: The Douglas Oil Field / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:399-416, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.24 ---
D. B. Haig, S. C. Pickering, and R. Probert: The Lennox oil and gas Field / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 124:417-436, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1997.124.01.25
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