Syllabus/achievement requirements

Obligatory Literature

Brown, Alistair R., Interpretation of three-dimenional seismic data, 6th Edition (2004). AAPG Memoir 42 and SEG Investigation in Geophysics, No. 9. 542p

Bond, C.E., Gibbs, A.D., Shipton, Z.K., and Jones, S. 2007. What do you think this is? ¡°Conceptual uncertainty¡± in geoscience interpretation. GSA Today: v. 17, no. 11, pp 4-10.

Recommended Literature General

Sheriff, R. E., 1985, Aspects of seismic resolution, in O. R. Berg and D. Woolverton, eds., Seismic stratigraphy II: an integrated approach to hydrocarbon exploration: AAPG Memoir 39, p. 1-10

Obligatory Literature for Seismic Interpretation Projects

Northern North Sea - Miocane Channel Project

Jordt, H., Faleide, J.I., Bj?rlykke, K., and Ibrahim, M., 1995. Cenozoic sequence stratigraphy of the central and northern North Sea Basin; tectonic development, sediment distribution and provenance areas. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 12; 8, Pages 845-879.

Galloway, W.E., Garber, J.L., Liu, X. Sloan, B.J., 1993. Sequence stratigraphic and depositional framework of the Cenozoic fill, central and northern North Sea basin. In: Parker, J.R. (Ed.) Petroleum geology of Northwest Europe; Proceedings of the 4th conference. Geological Society of London. London, United Kingdom, 33-43

Rundberg, Y., and Smalley, P.C., 1989. High-resolution dating of Cenozoic sediments from northern North Sea using 87Sr/86Sr stratigraphy. AAPG Bulletin. 73; 3, Pages 298-308.

Gregersen, U., 1998. Upper Cenozoic channels and fans on 3D seismic data in the northern Norwegian North Sea. Petroleum Geoscience, 4; 1, 67-80.

Martinsen, O.J., Boen, F., Charnock, M.A., Mangerud, G., and N?ttvedt, A. 1999. Cenozoic development of the Norwegian margin 60-64¡ã N; sequences and sedimentary response to variable basin physiography and tectonic setting. In: Fleet, A.J. and Boldy, S.A.R. (Eds.) Petroleum geology of Northwest Europe; proceedings of the 5th conference. Geological Society of London. London, United Kingdom, 293-304.

Faleide, J.I., Kyrkjeb?, R., Kjennerud, T., Gabrielsen, R.H., Jordt, H., Fanavoll, S., and Bjerke, M.D., 2002. Tectonic impact on sedimentary processes during Cenozoic evolution of the northern North Sea and surrounding areas. In: Dore, A.G., Cartwright, J.A., Stoker, M.S., Turner, J.P., and White, N. (Eds.) Exhumation of the North Atlantic Margin: Timing, Mechanisms and Implications for Petroleum Exploration. Geological Society of London, Spec. Publ. 196, 235-269.

Thyberg, B.I., Jordt, H., Bjorlykke, K., and Faleide, J.I., 2000. Relationships between sequence stratigraphy, mineralogy and geochemistry in Cenozoic sediments of the northern North Sea. In: N?ttvedt, A. (Ed.) Dynamics of the Norwegian margin. Geological Society London, Special Publications. 167, 245-272.

Jordt, H., Thyberg, B.I., and Nottvedt, A., 2000. Cenozoic evolution of the central and northern North Sea with focus on differential vertical movements of the basin floor and surrounding clastic source areas, In: N?ttvedt, A. (Ed.) Dynamics of the Norwegian margin. Geological Society London, Special Publications. 167, 219-243.

Erik S. Rasmussen, Claus Heilmann-Clausen, Regin Waagstein & Tor Eidvin. The Tertiary of the Norden. Episodes, 31, March 2008.

Northern North Sea - Troll Project

Badley, M.E., Price, J.D., Rambech, D.C. and Agdestein, T.,1988. The structural evolution of the northern Viking Graben and its bearing upon extensional modes of basin formation. Journal of the Geological Society of London. 145, Part 3; Pages 455-472.

Gabrielsen, R.H., F?rseth, R.B., Steel, R.J., Idil, S., and Kl?vjan, O.S., 1990. Architectural styles of basin fill in the nortern Viking Graben. In: Blundell, D.J. and Gibbs, A.D. (Eds) Tectonic Evolution of the North Sea Rifts. Oxford Science Publications, Oxford. 158-179.

Birtles, R., 1986. The seismic flatspot and the discovery and delineation of the Troll Field. In: Spencer, A.M. (Ed.) Habitat of hydrocarbons on the Norwegian continental shelf; proceedings of an international conference. Graham & Trotman. London, United Kingdom, 207-215.

Hellem, T., Kjemperud, A., and Ovrebo, O.K., 1986. The Troll Field; a geological/ geophysical model established by the PLO85 Group. In: Spencer, A.M. (Ed.) Habitat of hydrocarbons on the Norwegian continental shelf; proceedings of an international conference. Graham & Trotman. London, United Kingdom, 217-238.

Arvid Nottved, Erik P. Johannessen & Finn Surlyk, Mesozoic of Western Scandinavia and Eastern Greenland, Episodes, 31, March 2008.

Dreyer T., Whitaker M., Dexter J., Flesche H., and Larsen E., 2005. From spit system to tide-dominated delta; integrated reservoir model of the Upper Jurassic Sognefjord Formation on the Troll West Field. Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe Proceedings of the Conference. 6; Pages: 423-448.

Ravn?s, R. and Steel, R. 1998. Architecture of marine rift-basin successions. AAPG Bulletin. 82; 1, Pages: 110-146; 1998.

Bolle, L. 1992. Troll Field: Norway's Giant Offshore Gas Field: Chapter 28. Volume M 54: Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade 1978-1988. Pages 447 - 458.

Ravnas R; Nottvedt Arvid; Steel R J; Windelstad J. Syn-rift sedimentary architectures in the northern North Sea. Geological Society Special Publications. 167; Pages: 133-177; 2000.