Note: Intro -- From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental MARGIN -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Dedication to John Gjelberg, Michael Talbot and Trevor Elliott -- Chapter 1 Generic autogenic behaviour in fluvial systems: lessons from experimental studies -- INTRODUCTION -- AUTOGENIC PROCESSES -- Steep-gradient alluvial fan -- Moderate-gradient braided stream systems -- Low-gradient rivers -- FREQUENCY OF AUTOGENIC PROCESSES -- ALLOGENIC CONTROLS ON GENERIC AUTOGENIC BEHAVIOUR -- Aggradation rate -- Sea-level -- Climate -- Tectonics -- DISCUSSION -- IMPLICATIONS -- Reconstructions of generic avulsion behaviour -- Steep-gradient and moderately-gradient systems -- Low-gradient river systems -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Climatic and tectonic controls on Triassic dryland terminal fluvial system architecture, central North Sea -- INTRODUCTION -- Central North Sea stratigraphic framework -- Regional tectonic setting -- DEPOSITIONAL SETTING -- Early to early Middle Triassic facies associations -- Middle to Late Triassic facies associations -- Terminal character of the Triassic fluvial systems -- TECTONIC CONTROLS ON FACIES ARCHITECTURE -- Extensional basin architecture -- Pods and interpods - deposition versus preservation -- CLIMATIC CONTROLS -- An arid rift interior -- Skagerrak Formation fluvial expansion during pluvial phases -- Fluvial expansion driven by catchment wettening -- Sediment yield -- Base level -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Late Triassic to Early Jurassic climatic change, northern North Sea region: impact on alluvial architecture, palaeosols and clay mineralogy -- INTRODUCTION -- GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK -- Stratigraphy and lithology -- Basin configuration and structural framework. , Subdivision of the Lunde Formation and the Statfjord Group -- Material and methods -- Sedimentary facies and alluvial architecture -- Palaeosols and mudrock facies -- Clay mineralogy and iron oxides -- Vertical trends and regional correlation -- DISCUSSION -- Climate as a controlling factor on sedimentary trends -- Tectonics and eustasy versus climate as cause of change in depositional trends -- Cause and wider regional aspects of the Triassic-Jurassic climate change -- Impact on alluvial architecture and consequences for hydrocarbon exploration -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 Applying accommodation versus sediment supply ratio concepts to stratigraphic analysis and zonation of a fluvial reservoir -- INTRODUCTION -- AIMS -- ACCOMMODATION TO SEDIMENT SUPPLY RATIO: SIGNIFICANCE, RECOGNITION AND TRENDS -- Allocyclic and autocyclic control -- Fluvial base level -- A/S change and recognition criteria -- Trends in A/S change -- Long-term A/S change versus short-term autogenic processes -- APPLICATION TO THE STATFJORD GROUP -- General setting and characteristics -- Correlation and zonation challenges -- Stratigraphic analysis -- Reservoir zonation improvements -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- APPENDIX -- Definitions for measuring change in A/S -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Investigating the autogenic process response to allogenic forcing: experimental geomorphology and stratigraphy -- INTRODUCTION -- QUANTIFYING FLUVIAL AUTOGENIC PROCESSES -- Fluvial autogenic sediment storage and release -- Autogenic shoreline fluctuation -- Suggestions for further work -- CONTROLS OF ALLOGENIC FORCING ON AUTOGENIC PROCESSES -- Basin response time scale and high-frequency stratigraphic signals -- Base-level change -- Tectonics: Lateral ground tilting -- Suggestions for future work -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 6 The autostratigraphic view of responses of river deltas to external forcing: a review of the concepts -- INTRODUCTION -- AUTOGENESIS AND EXTERNAL FORCING -- THE HYPOTHESIS OF EQUILIBRIUM RESPONSE -- AUTOGENIC NON-EQUILIBRIUM RESPONSES -- ALLOGENIC NON-EQUILIBRIUM RESPONSES -- CONTROL OF MANIFESTATION OF NONEQUILBIRUM RESPONSE -- APPLICATION TO STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS -- REMAINING PROBLEMS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Autogenic process change in modern deltas: lessons for the ancient -- INTRODUCTION -- Delta process changes -- Autogenic responses -- Autogenic progradation of modern deltas -- Examples of process change in ancient deltas -- DISCUSSION -- Models for autogenic delta process changes -- Implications for ancient delta studies -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Morphodynamic modelling of wave reworking of an alluvial delta and application of results in the standard reservoir modelling workflow -- INTRODUCTION -- Social and scientific relevance -- Goal and present numerical model scope -- PREVIOUS WORK ON QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DELTA MODELS -- Qualitative delta models -- Quantitative delta models -- MODEL DESCRIPTION AND SET-UP -- SCENARIOS -- RESULTS -- Base case scenario -- Wave reworking with original fluvial input (case Qhigh) -- Sediment transport directions -- LINKED PROCESS AND RESERVOIR MODELLING -- Synthetic wells -- Net Rock Volume and connected reservoirs -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Sedimentation at the Jurassic-Triassic boundary, south-west Barents Sea: indication of climate change -- INTRODUCTION -- TRIASSIC TO EARLY JURASsIC CLIMATIC SETTINGS -- STUDY AREA AND WELL DATABASE -- LATE TRIASSIC TO EARLY JURASSIC STRATIGRAPHY AND FACIES -- Late Carnian to Early Norian delta plain (Snadd Formation). , Norian to Rhaetian delta progradation (Fruholmen Formation) -- Late Rhaetian to Sinemurian fluvial system (Tubåen Formation) -- DEPOSITIONAL TRENDS ACROSS THE TRIASSIC TO JURASSIC BOUNDARY -- Temporal variation in accommodation space development -- Changing provenance areas and hinterland rejuvenation -- Geographic and temporal climatic variations -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 Halten Terrace Lower and Middle Jurassic inter-rift megasequence analysis: megasequence structure, sedimentary architecture and controlling parameters -- INTRODUCTION -- Geological setting & -- Early to Middle Jurassic semi-regional geological evolution -- Early to Middle Jurassic structuring & -- basin setting -- Lower to Middle Jurassic stratigraphy and palaeogeographies -- Lower to Middle Jurassic megasequence analysis -- The Tilje Megasequence -- The Tofte-Ile Megasequence -- The Garn Megasequence -- Megasequence structure and sedimentary architecture -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Appendix 1.: Core database for the Tilje megasequence. -- Appendix 2.: Core database for the Tofte-Ile megasequence. -- Appendix 3.: Core database for the Garn megasequence. -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 Updated depositional and stratigraphic model of the Lower Jurassic Åre Formation, Heidrun Field, Norway -- INTRODUCTION -- DATABASE AND METHODS -- GEOLOGICAL SETTING -- Provenance -- DEPOSITIONAL MODEL AND STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK -- Key stratigraphic markers -- Åre 1 and 2 Zones: Fluvial/alluvial coastal plain -- STRATIGRAPHIC SYNTHESIS -- Tectonic controls on stratigraphic development -- INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS -- General impact of a revised stratigraphic model -- Impact on reservoir models and calculation of hydrocarbon volumes -- Impact on opportunities for increased oil recovery -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES. , Chapter 12 Depositional dynamics and sequence development in a tidally influenced marginal marine basin: Early Jurassic Neill Klinter Group, Jameson Land Basin, East Greenland -- INTRODUCTION -- REGIONAL SETTING AND STRATIGRAPHY -- METHODOLOGY AND TERMINOLOGY -- DEPOSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE -- Key stratigraphic surfaces in the Neill Klinter Group -- Facies and facies associations -- Bounding surfaces, allostratigraphic units, architectural elements -- Allostratigraphic unit 1 -- Allostratigraphic unit 2 -- Allostratigraphic unit 3 -- Upper stratigraphical compartment of the Neill Klinter Group -- Subaerial unconformity SU1 and transgressive surface TS3 -- Allostratigraphic unit 4 -- Allostratigraphic unit 5 -- Subaerial unconformity SU2 and transgressive surface TS5 -- Allostratigraphic unit 6 -- Allostratigraphic unit 7 -- Subaerial unconformity SU3 and transgressive surface TS6 -- Allostratigraphic unit 8 -- OVERALL TRENDS: SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY -- T-R sequences -- DISCUSSION -- Sediment infill dynamics of the Neill Klinter Group -- Incised valleys and their bounding unconformities of the Neill Klinter Group -- Sequence development in the Neill Klinter Group -- Neill Klinter Group as an analogue for reservoir sandstones on the Halten Terrace -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 13 Eustatic, tectonic and climatic controls on an early syn-rift mixed-energy delta, Tilje Formation (Early Jurassic, Smørbukk field, offshore mid-Norway) -- INTRODUCTION -- Tilje Formation in the Smørbukk field -- METHODOLOGY -- FACIES -- Facies 1: Graded and non-graded conglomerate -- Facies 2: Cross-bedded sandstone -- Facies 3: Current-rippled sandstone -- Facies 4: Hummocky cross-stratified (HCS) sandstone -- Facies 5: Heterolithics -- Facies 6: Intensely bioturbated sandstone and heterolithics -- Facies 7: Pinstriped-laminated mudstones. , FACIES ASSOCIATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIONS.