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It should be emphasized again, that this first wave of exploration was targetting almost exclusively the Mesozoic anticlinal play. The Mesozoic is known to contain several sources rocks and a multitude of play possibilities, from the purely structural to the stratigraphic types.
Equally exciting, at least theoretically, are the possibilities offered by the Carboniferous and Permian succession of the Sverdrup, which has been penetrated by a handful of wells only. This succession is carbonate-dominated and is very much like that of neighboring Barents Sea and Timan-Pechora areas of Northern Russia.
Indeed, on a Permian paleogeographic map, the Sverdrup, the Barents Sea and Timan Pechora are all part of the same depositional system, and just a few thousand kilometres separated these areas as opposed to many times that distance now.
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Øyou realize that it passes into very thick (in this case over 500 m), keep up reef mounds that have recorded, not only the passage from a restricted basin to a fully open marine basin, but also the enormous accommodation space created when the MFS was formed.
You are looking at a MFS keep-up reef-mound which marks the culmination of TST, and which is downlapped by the later prograding RST.
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It should be emphasized again, that this first wave of exploration was targetting almost exclusively the Mesozoic anticlinal play. The Mesozoic is known to contain several sources rocks and a multitude of play possibilities, from the purely structural to the stratigraphic types.
Equally exciting, at least theoretically, are the possibilities offered by the Carboniferous and Permian succession of the Sverdrup, which has been penetrated by a handful of wells only. This succession is carbonate-dominated and is very much like that of neighboring Barents Sea and Timan-Pechora areas of Northern Russia.
Indeed, on a Permian paleogeographic map, the Sverdrup, the Barents Sea and Timan Pechora are all part of the same depositional system, and just a few thousand kilometres separated these areas as opposed to many times that distance now.
