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Anell, Ingrid Margareta; Serck, Christopher Sæbø; Zuchuat, Valentin & Braathen, Alvar
(2020).
Structural influence on Triassic deposition on the Northern Barents Shelf.
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Friestad, Espen; Eide, Christian Haug & Lecomte, Isabelle
(2019).
Synthetic seismic modelling of fluvial channels in the Blackhawk Formation as an analogue to the Triassic Barents Sea.
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Osmundsen, Per Terje
(2018).
Linking onshore and off shore structures and their role in basin development on the continental margin.
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Faleide, Jan Inge
(2018).
Barents Sea basin evolution - in time and space.
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Gabrielsen, Roy Helge
(2018).
Sum up and looks into the future.
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Braathen, Alvar
(2018).
Brittle structures in southern Norway.
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Nystuen, Johan Petter
(2018).
How Old are the Mountains in South Norway.
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Buckley, Simon John; Ringdal, Kari; Dolva, Benjamin; Lecomte, Isabelle; Anell, Ingrid Margareta & Braathen, Alvar
(2018).
A virtual field trip to seismic-scale outcrops of the Triassic, Edgeøya, Svalbard.
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Large-scale cliff sections on Edgeøya, an island in the eastern part of the Svalbard Archipelago, comprise mostly Triassic sedimentary successions, and are onshore outcrops of formations found on the offshore Barents Shelf. These outcrops are of high interest for studying the subsurface geology found offshore on the Barents Shelf, using seismic-scale features such as small-scale growth faults, paralic deposits and low-angle clinoforms (Anell et al., 2016). At Kvalpynten, an outcrop at the southern end of Edgeøya, these features can be observed, providing the opportunity to compare offshore seismic data with the outcrop expression using seismic modelling. Synthetic seismic modelling provides a means of aiding interpretation of seismic data by quantitatively and qualitatively assessing resolution, scale and level of detail of modelled onshore structures (Lecomte et al., 2015). This can give valuable insights into potential resolution and survey parameter issues, as well as limitations with seismic data.
Developments in digital outcrop modelling techniques, such as lidar and photogrammetry, now allow the accurate and high-resolution capture of large and inaccessible outcrop sections, at scales comparable with seismic vertical resolution. This opens up new possibilities for generating georeferenced input to synthetic seismic modelling, which allows generation of highly visual end products for educational purposes. This contribution presents a virtual field trip to the Triassic outcrops at Kvalpynten. The dataset is based on virtual outcrop models collected using boat-based photogrammetry, covering over 10km of continuous cliff sections. The 3D outcrop model is combined with geological interpretations, logs, field photos and information panels, as well as regional elevation data to set the context of the trip. In addition, synthetic seismic data are fused with the virtual outcrop models to highlight the scale of the exposures compared to offshore seismic data. The combined dataset is explored in LIME, a high performance viewer designed for displaying disparate geospatial and field datasets (http://virtualoutcrop.com/lime).
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Eide, Christian Haug; Lecomte, Isabelle; Schofield, Nick; Buckley, Simon John & Howell, John Anthony
(2018).
Seismic Interpretation of Mafic Sill-Complexes in Sedimentary Basins
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Application of 3D-seismic reflection-data to igneous systems in sedimentary basins has led to a revolution in the understanding of mafic sill-complexes. However, there is considerable uncertainty on how geometries and architecture of sill-complexes within the subsurface relates to those imaged in seismic reflection-data. To provide constraints on how sill-complexes in seismic data should be interpreted, we present synthetic seismograms generated from a seismic-scale (22x0.25 km) outcrop in East Greenland constrained by abundant field-data. This study highlights how overlying igneous rocks adversely affect imaging of underlying intrusions and rocks by decreasing seismic amplitude, frequency and making steeply dipping features near-impossible to image. Furthermore, seismic modelling in this study shows that, because of the high impedance contrast between siliciclastic host-rock and dolerites, very thin (1-5 m) intrusions should in principle be imaged in reflection-seismic data at 3 km depth. However, comparison with actual seismic data with well-data shows significant amounts of un-imaged sill intrusions, and this is likely due to limited seismic resolution, overburden complexity, inadequate velocity-models, and interference between reflections from closely spaced sills and sill-splays. Significant improvements to sill imaging and interpretation could be made by better predicting occurrence and geometry of sill intrusions and including these in velocity models.
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Czarniecka, Urszula; Haile, Beyene Girma & Krajewski, Krzysztof
(2018).
Middle Triassic siliciclastic deposits of Svalbard as a part of source to sink framework of the Arctic.
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Haile, Beyene Girma; Jahren, Jens & Hellevang, Helge
(2017).
New insights about thermally driven diagenetic changes due to the emplacement of magmatic sills into reservoir sediments at Wilhelmøya (Svalbard): Implications for reservoir quality.
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Flesland, Malin; Rotevatn, Atle; Lecomte, Isabelle & Eide, Christian Haug
(2017).
Understanding seismic imaging and controls on sill intrusions using lidar data from East Greenland.
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Haile, Beyene Girma; Klausen, Tore Grane; Czarniecka, Urszula; Xi, Kelai; Jahren, Jens & Braathen, Alvar
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(2017).
Diagenesis of Upper Triassic sandstones, Edgeøya, Svalbard.
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Maher, Harmon; Braathen, Alvar; Mulrooney, Mark; Ogata, Kei; Osmundsen, Per Terje & Senger, Kim
[Show all 7 contributors for this article]
(2017).
Regional fracture systems & local fracture domains in Svalbard's diabase sills
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Faleide, Jan Inge
(2017).
Barents shelf tectonic evolution – recent advances
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Ogata, Kei; Mulrooney, Mark; Braathen, Alvar; Maher, Harmon; Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra Anna & Anell, Ingrid Margareta
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(2017).
Architecture, deformation style and petrophysical properties of a Late Triassic growth fault system in southern Edgeøya, East Svalbard.
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Czarniecka, Urszula
(2017).
Westerly-sourced siliciclastic deposits in the Triassic of Svalbard as a part of the source to sink framework of the Arctic.
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Yenwongfai, Honore Dzekamelive; Mondol, Nazmul Haque; Lecomte, Isabelle & Faleide, Jan Inge
(2017).
Quantitative Seismic interpretation strategies for petrofacies discrimination within the Triassic: A Goliat Case Study.
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Braathen, Alvar
(2017).
Trias North – from ambitions to results – did we answer the key questions?
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Mulrooney, Mark; Rismyhr, Bjarte; Yenwongfai, Honore Dzekamelive; Leutscher, Johan; Olaussen, Snorre & Braathen, Alvar
(2017).
Impacts of small‐scale faults on continental to coastal plain deposition: Evidence from the Realgrunnen Subgroup in the Goliat field, Southwest Barents Sea, Norway.
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Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra Anna
(2017).
Sedimentary architecture of halfgrabens and grabens fill; Kvalpynten, SW Edgeøya.
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Line, Lina Hedvig; Jahren, Jens & Hellevang, Helge
(2017).
Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality of Anisian and Carnian channels in the southwestern Barents Sea.
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Eide, Christian Haug; Klausen, Tore Grane & Helland-Hansen, William
(2017).
An integrated view of sedimentary systems in the Triassic Barents Sea.
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Braathen, Alvar; Mulrooney, Mark; Haile, Beyene Girma; Appleyard, Tyler Ross; van Yperen, Anna Elisabeth & Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra Anna
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(2017).
“Delta collapse” – Edgeøya delta system compared to the Ferron delta (Utah)
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Eide, Christian Haug; Klausen, Tore Grane; Katkov, Denis; Suslova, Anna & Helland-Hansen, William
(2017).
Linking an Early Triassic delta to antecedent topography: source-to-sink study of the southwestern Barents Sea margin.
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Line, Lina Hedvig & Jahren, Jens
(2017).
Reservoir quality of Anisian and Carnian channels on the southwestern Barents Shelf.
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Helland-Hansen, William; Eide, Christian Haug; Klausen, Tore Grane & Braathen, Alvar
(2017).
Internasjonal forskningsgruppe studerer triaslagrekken på Svalbard og i Barentshavet med nytt blikk: Ny forståelse av et gigantisk elve- og deltasystem.
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Czarniecka, Urszula
(2017).
Provenance signature of the westerly-sourced siliciclastic deposits in the Triassic of Svalbard.
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Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra Anna; Osmundsen, Per Terje; Braathen, Alvar; Ogata, Kei; Anell, Ingrid Margareta & Husteli, Berit
[Show all 8 contributors for this article]
(2017).
Sedimentary architecture of siliciclastic, syntectonic graben and halfgraben fill in Kvalpynten, Edgeøya, Svalbard.
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An array of ten grabens/ half-grabens and their associated syntectonic basin fill (averaging approx. 700 m across) are exposed along a 9 km cliff section at Kvalpynten, Edgeøya, offering a unique opportunity to study the silisiclastic architecture of listric graben basin fill. The exposures at Kvalpynten provide a unique opportunity to correlate fault-controlled sedimentary architecture on the scale of meters to hundreds of meters with detailed facies relationships, and thus fault-induced differential accommodation with the depositional environments that filled it.
The basins developed in the Late Triassic, during the deposition of the Early Carnian to Early Norian deltaic successions of Tchermakfjellet and De Geerdalen formations which is approximately the onshore equivalent to the offshore Snadd Formation. The lowermost part of the ca 400 m high Kvalpynten cliff section reveals a number of NW–SE striking growth faults with 50–100 m offset, which bound basins filled with shale and sandstone wedges. Up section, the growth faults tip out, and are buried by undeformed deltaic deposits.
Integrated field studies including sedimentology and structural geology combined with surfaces mapping on a photogrammetric virtual outcrop model allowed incremental reconstruction of the grabens/ half-grabens evolution. Four transgressive surfaces were identified and mapped, allowing correlation of the sandstone packages between each basin. The sequence of faulting has been defined with respect to the mapped flooding surfaces. Faulting clearly occurred in several phases as evident by the syn-kinematic fault’s control on sediments of different ages, and from the occurrence of later forming faults rotating earlier formed fault blocks.
In general, early faults defined a relatively symmetrical basin configuration whereas later phases of movement were localized mainly along south-dipping faults. This gave rise to a change to more asymmetric basins and to the formation of asymmetric, composite sedimentary bodies with stacked shoreface and offshore transition deposits. Locally, fault crests were eroded. Our sedimentological observations suggest that tidal processes were dominant during sandstone deposition within the grabens/half-grabens, expressed by the widespread occurrence of tidal bar and tidal flat deposits.
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Line, Lina Hedvig; Jahren, Jens & Hellevang, Helge
(2017).
Diagenesis and Reservoir quality of Anisian and Carnian channels in the southwestern Barents Sea.
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Yenwongfai, Honore Dzekamelive; Mondol, Nazmul Haque; Lecomte, Isabelle; Faleide, Jan Inge & Leutscher, J
(2017).
Integrating prestack inversion, machine learning, and forward seismic modelling for petrofacies characterization: A Barents Sea case study.
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Eide, Christian Haug; Schofield, Nick; Jerram, Dougal Alexander & Howell, John Anthony
(2017).
Basin-scale architecture of deeply emplaced sill complexes.
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Olaussen, Snorre
(2017).
Upper Triassic to Middle Jurassic key sequence stratigraphic surfaces onshore offshore Arctic Norway; guidelines for prediction of facies development.
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Line, Lina Hedvig; Jahren, Jens & Hellevang, Helge
(2017).
Reservoir characterization of Triassic sandstones in the southwestern Barents Sea.
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Yenwongfai, Honore Dzekamelive; Mondol, Nazmul Haque; Faleide, Jan Inge & Lecomte, Isabelle
(2017).
Petrofacies characterization using prestack inversion and neural networks within the Snadd Formation of the Goliat Field, SW Barents Sea.
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The studied Goliat Field is the first oil field to be in production in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea despite an exploration history spanning over three decades. The reserves within Triassic Snadd Formation were not included in PDO (Plan for Development and Operations). This was due to poorer reservoir properties compared to the Realgrunnen Subgroup and the Kobbe Formation which together constitute the primary reservoir target in the Goliat Field. The field has an expected life time of 15 years. However, this life time can potentially be extended by applying quantitative seismic reservoir characterization techniques within more challenging minor reservoir intervals like the Snadd formation.
Fluid discrimination by geophysical technique in uplifted Barents Sea areas has additional challenges as a result of a reduction in the seismic fluid sensitivity associated with rock stiffening (overconsolidation) due to prior deeper burial and quartz cementation. A multidisciplinary approach involving geology, rock physics, and geophysics has been used for petrofacies characterization from long offset prestack angle gathers and petrophysical well logs. A rock physics feasibility and AVA forward modelling reveal the sensitivity of the defined petrofacies classes to different elastic properties. The optimum prestack inversion method is subsequently selected based on the rock physics feasibility. The output from the inversion is used to derive the PEIL
(Pseudo-Elastic Impedance), PI (Poisson Impedance), and LMR (Lambda-Mhu-Rho) attributes. These derived prestack attributes are then combined with poststack trace attributes in a neural network analysis. Neural networks utilize the non-linear relationships between the parameters to further optimize the inverted result and to predict the effective porosity, gamma ray, and resistivity log responses. Finally probability density functions (PDFs) extracted from the best well log training dataset are applied to a composite seismic attribute volume from which probability estimates of the classified petrofacies are obtained. Geological interpretations are then inferred based on the seismic geomorphological character observed from the different attributes. Probability maps obtained from this integrated approach has the potential to guide petrophysical reservoir modelling workflows and optimization of reservoir drainage strategies.
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Anell, Ingrid Margareta; Braathen, Alvar; Røhnert, Daniela; Ogata, Kei; Osmundsen, Per Terje & Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra Anna
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(2017).
Findings of five field foragings. Sandbody distribution, clinoform geometries and depositional environments of Edgeøya, Svalbard.
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Buckley, Simon John; Ringdal, Kari; Dolva, Benjamin; Lecomte, Isabelle; Eide, Christian Haug & Anell, Ingrid Margareta
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(2017).
Digital outcrop modelling results and workflows for derived synthetic seismic imaging.
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Eide, Christian Haug
(2016).
Flaum på Vestlandet - Tankar om den store flaumen i 2014.
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Eide, Christian Haug
(2016).
Jakta på storflaumen - Ka vil DU bli? Feltgeolog?
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Line, Lina Hedvig & Jahren, Jens
(2016).
Reservoir quality of Middle – Late Triassic sandstones in the southwestern Barents Sea: How can we predict distribution of high reservoir quality at a sub-seismic scale?
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Line, Lina Hedvig & Jahren, Jens
(2016).
Reservoir characterization of Middle – Upper Triassic Kobbe and Snadd Formations in the southwestern Barents Sea.
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Eide, Christian Haug
(2016).
Deeply emplaced igneous intrusions in sedimentary basins: examples from East Greenland.
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Mørk, Atle
(2016).
The geology of North Eastern Svalbard as studied summer 2015.
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Paterson, Niall William & Mangerud, Gunn
(2016).
Heading towards a refined palynozonation for the late Middle - Late Triassic of the Barents Sea area.
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Mueller, Steven & Kürschner, Wolfram Michael
(2016).
The Carnian Pluvial Phase in the Boreal.
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Haile, Beyene Girma; Klausen, Tore Grane; Hellevang, Helge; Jahren, Jens & Bjørlykke, Knut
(2016).
Burial diagenesis of De Geerdalen Formation control by depositional facies distribution, Edgeøya, Svalbard.
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Line, Lina Hedvig & Jahren, Jens
(2016).
Reservoir characterization of Middle – Upper Triassic Kobbe and Snadd Formations in the southwestern Barents Sea. The role of chlorite coating.
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Ogata, Kei; Mulrooney, Mark; Braathen, Alvar; Maher, Harmon; Smyrak-Sikora, Aleksandra Anna & Anell, Ingrid Margareta
[Show all 12 contributors for this article]
(2016).
Field-based characterisation and analogue modelling of the South Edgeøya growth faults systems.
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Gabrielsen, Roy Helge; Sokoutis, Dimitrios; Willingshofer, Ernst & Faleide, Jan Inge
(2016).
Experiments on horizontal and vertical fault linkage and its relevance for the Hoop Fault Complex.
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Eide, Christian Haug & Klausen, Tore Grane
(2016).
Source-to-Sink and sediment balance of the Triassic Barents Sea: Changes in paleogeography and reservoir properties in response to contrasting sediment supply.
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Klausen, Tore Grane; Helland-Hansen, William & Müller, Reidar
(2016).
Quantitative clinoform characterization –Triassic Barents Sea offshore Northern Norway.
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Eide, Christian Haug
(2016).
Magmatiske intrusjoner på Øst-Grønland.
geoforskning.no.
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Eide, Christian Haug; Schofield, Nick; Lecomte, Isabelle; Buckley, Simon John & Howell, John Anthony
(2016).
Seismic imaging of deeply emplaced sill complexes.
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Eide, Christian Haug
(2016).
Reservoir architecture from outcrops:
Understanding controls on seismic-to-core scale heterogeneities.
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Eide, Christian Haug
(2016).
Tana - a very old river: Linking an Early Triassic delta to antecedent topography.
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Eide, Christian Haug & Haflidason, Haflidi
(2016).
Den store flaumen i 2014 - Fjordsediment som arkiv for før-instrumentelle flaumar på Vestlandet.
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Eide, Christian Haug & Helland-Hansen, William
(2016).
Mass-balance of an Induan (Early Triassic) Fennoscandian-derived source-to-sink system in the Barents Sea: Implications for early Triassic landscape and exhumation.
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Mulrooney, Mark; Braathen, Alvar & Leutscher, J
(2016).
Structural Architecture of the Goliat Field, SW Barents Sea, Offshore Norway.
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Gac, Sebastien & Faleide, Jan Inge
(2016).
Contractional structures in the Barents Sea: Insights from numerical modeling.
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Eide, Christian Haug; Klausen, Tore Grane; Anell, Ingrid Margareta; Suslova, Anna; Katov, Denis & Helland-Hansen, William
(2016).
Source-to-sink and mass-balance of the entire Triassic Barents Sea - Ideas, Plans and preliminary results.
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Anell, Ingrid Margareta; Lecomte, Isabelle; Braathen, Alvar & Buckley, Simon John
(2016).
Synthetic seismic expression of the onshore Kvalpynten case study: Growth-faults. Low-angle prograding deltaic system.
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Braathen, Alvar
(2016).
The Trias North project - status per May 2016.
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Eide, Christian Haug & Løvestad, Aasmund Olav
(2018).
Mudstone-rich fluvial systems as reservoirs: The Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation, Eastern Utah.
Universitetet i Bergen.
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Haile, Beyene Girma; Hellevang, Helge & Jahren, Jens
(2018).
Reservoir quality of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic sediments, NW Barents Shelf. Understanding porosity evolution through diagenesis and sedimentology.
Universitetet i Oslo.
ISSN 1501-7710.
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Eide, Christian Haug & Friestad, Espen
(2018).
Synthetic seismic modelling of fluvial channels in the Blackhawk Formation as an analogue to the Triassic Barents Sea.
Universitetet i Bergen.
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Flesland, Malin; Eide, Christian Haug & Lecomte, Isabelle
(2017).
Controls on architecture and seismic imaging of igneous intrusions: Examples from LIDAR outcrop data on Traill Ø (East Greenland) and seismic data from the conjugate Møre Margin.
Universitetet i Bergen.
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Solvang, Ole-Marius; Eide, Christian Haug; Helland-Hansen, William; Mangerud, Gunn & Olaussen, Snorre
(2017).
Sedimentological and petrographical investigations of the Early Triassic Vardebukta Formation on western Spitsbergen.
Universitetet i Bergen.