A major Yorkshire Geological Society Publication!
"Carboniferous
Hydrocarbon Geology: the southern North Sea and surrounding onshore areas"
edited by John Collinson, David Evans,
Doug Holliday & Neil Jones
[From K.W. Glennie: "Regional tectonics in relation to Permo-Carboniferous hydrocarbon potential, Southern North Sea Basin." Fig. 6: Late Carboniferous Westphalian]
This 240 page A4 full colour volume was published by the Society in 2005. It brings together a series of 14 review papers important to the Carboniferous hydrocarbon geology of the Southern North Sea and adjacent onshore areas. Together they comprise a significant summary of the current state of knowledge of the area, and provide a wide-ranging overview of the Southern North Sea Carboniferous for those whose main experience is with the onshore successions.
The book is based on a Yorkshire Geological Society conference, attended by 120 participants, held at the University of Sheffield in September 2002. It aimed to bring together geoscientists experienced in the Carboniferous of the southern North Sea and also those whose experience has been mainly derived from the study of the Carboniferous on shore, either at outcrop or in the subsurface. These two areas are mostly parts of the same set of basinal and depositional systems, and it was thought that a forum for transfer of knowledge and experience between the two communities would be widely beneficial and stimulating. The Yorkshire Geological Society, whose members probably represent the greatest accumulation of onshore Carboniferous experience in the UK, was thought to be an especially relevant organization to run such an event. The timing was also thought to be particularly appropriate, as the exploration for gas in the southern North Sea moves into a phase where most of (if not all) the major accumulations in the Rotliegendes reservoir have already been found and mostly exploited and where future exploration must increasingly focus on the deeper and more complex Carboniferous reservoir sections.
[From: Cameron, Munns & Stoker: "Remaining hydrocarbon exploration potential of the Carboniferous fairway, UK southern North Sea" Fig. 16. Geoseismic section illustrating examples of Carboniferous trap styles]
Contents:
Regional tectonics in relation to Permo-Carboniferous hydrocarbon potential, Southern North Sea Basin - K. W. Glennie
Carboniferous miospore biostratigraphy of the North Sea - D. McLean, B. Owens, R. Neves
Post-Carboniferous burial and exhumation histories of Carboniferous rocks of the southern North Sea and adjacent onshore UK - Paul F. Green
Dinantian and Namurian depositional systems in the southern North Sea - John D. Collinson
Fluvial sandbody architecture, cyclicity and sequence stratigraphical setting – implications for hydrocarbon reservoirs: the Westphalian C and D of the Osnabrück–Ibbenbüren area, northwest Germany - Neil S. Jones & Brian W. Glover
A sequence-stratigraphical scheme for the Late Carboniferous, southern North Sea, Anglo-Dutch sector - J. M. Cole, M. Whitaker, M. Kirk, S. Crittenden
Westphalian mid-A to mid-C depositional controls, UK Pennine Basin: regional analyses and their relevance to southern North Sea interpretations - J. H. Rippon
Imaging coals with seismic reflection data for improved detection of sandstone bodies - B. A. McGlen & J. H. Rippon
Interplay between northern and southern sediment sources during Westphalian deposition in the Silverpit Basin, southern North Sea - Andrew Morton, Claire Hallsworth, Andrea Moscariello
Chemostratigraphy of the Upper Carboniferous Schooner Formation, southern North Sea - T. J. Pearce, D. Wray, K. Ratcliffe, D. K. Wright, A. Moscariello
Stratigraphy of the Upper Carboniferous Schooner Formation, southern North Sea: chemostratigraphy, mineralogy, palynology and Sm–Nd isotope analysis -T. J. Pearce, D. McLean, D. Wray, D. K. Wright, C. J. Jeans, E. W. Mearns
Geological factors influencing gas production in the Tyne field (Block 44/18a), southern North Sea, and their impact on future infill well planning - Colin M. Jones, Philip. J. Allen, Neville H. Morrison
Can new technologies be used to exploit the coal resources in the Yorkshire–Nottinghamshire coalfield? - S. Holloway, N. S. Jones, D. P. Creedy, K. Garner
Remaining hydrocarbon exploration potential of the Carboniferous fairway, UK southern North Sea - Don Cameron, Jim Munns, Sue Stoker
Appendix: Late Carboniferous redbeds of the UK southern North Sea, viewed in a regional context - Bernard Besly
Yorkshire Geological Society Occasional Publication No. 7, 2005. (Proceedings of the Conference held at Sheffield, September 2002) (Paperback: ISBN: 0-9501656-5-4). List price of the volume is £45 plus £5 postage & packing, (£35 plus £5 p. & p. for registered participants in the Conference and for members of the Yorkshire Geological Society).
Please send orders to: Dr John Powell, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK, e-mail: jhp @ bgs.ac.uk. Please make cheques payable to: Yorkshire Geological Society.
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