@article{Hampson:2009:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00414.x,
author = {Hampson, GJ and Sixsmith, PJ and Kieft, RL and Jackson, CA-L and Johnson, HD},
doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00414.x},
journal = {Basin Research},
pages = {528--558},
title = {Quantitative analysis of net-transgressive shoreline trajectories and stratigraphic architectures: mid-to-late Jurassic of the North Sea rift basin},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00414.x},
volume = {21},
year = {2009}
}

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AB  - This paper outlines the use of the shoreline trajectory concept to understand the controls on net-transgressive reservoir distribution and architecture in the highly productive Middle and Late Jurassic plays in the North Sea. Two broad groups of regressive–transgressive sandstone tongue are identified, with distinctive geometries, architectures and values of net-transgressive shoreline trajectory defined by the stacking arrangement of multiple tongues. Shoreface tongues were supplied by longshore-transported, marine-reworked sediment and are associated with low-to-moderate transgressive trajectories (typically <0.2°). These tongues have variable dip extents that decrease weakly as the angle of shoreline trajectory increases, relatively small thicknesses that increase weakly with the angle of transgressive trajectory, and partial or no overlap with underlying and overlying tongues down depositional dip. Deltaic-to-estuarine tongues were supplied directly by fluvial sediment and are associated with moderate-to-very high transgressive trajectories (typically >0.1°). These tongues have small dip extents, variable thicknesses that increase weakly with the angle of transgressive trajectory, and partial to full overlap with underlying and overlying tongues down depositional dip, although vertically stacked tongues are separated by thin mudstones over much of their extents. There is some overlap in geometry and stacking arrangement of these two groups of sandstone tongues. The temporal and spatial distribution of shoreface and deltaic-to-estuarine sandstone tongues reflects linked variations in tectonic subsidence and sediment routing within the evolving rift basin. Deltaic-to-estuarine tongues with moderate-to-very high transgressive trajectories were developed in rapidly subsiding fault-bounded depocentres supplied directly by fluvial sediment, whereas shoreface tongues with low-to-moderate transgressive trajectories characterised slowly subsiding faul
AU  - Hampson,GJ
AU  - Sixsmith,PJ
AU  - Kieft,RL
AU  - Jackson,CA-L
AU  - Johnson,HD
DO  - 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00414.x
EP  - 558
PY  - 2009///
SP  - 528
TI  - Quantitative analysis of net-transgressive shoreline trajectories and stratigraphic architectures: mid-to-late Jurassic of the North Sea rift basin
T2  - Basin Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2117.2009.00414.x
UR  - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/user/accessdenied?ID=122439255&Act=2138&Code=4717&Page=/cgi-bin/fulltext/122439255/PDFSTART
VL  - 21
ER  - 

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