CANBERRA, Australia,
May 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Today, Australian geoscience company Frogtech Geoscience
released the North Atlantic Regional SEEBASE® Study and GIS, a new
comprehensive regional study of basement architecture in the North
Sea and the North Atlantic conjugate margins of Norway, Greenland, UK and Ireland.
The unique SEEBASE model visualises basement topography at the
geologically complex Baltica-Avalonia-Laurentia collisional triple
junction. The basement focused analysis overcomes the challenge of
interpreting basement beneath basalt and/or salt on seismic data,
showing that the deepest North Atlantic depocentres are floored by
shallow mantle below hyperextended crust.
Basin trends in the prospective North Atlantic and North Sea
were directly controlled by pre-existing Caledonian structures and
reinforced during the Variscan Orogeny. Paleogeography in
reconstructed space shows North Sea basement platforms as barriers
between contrasting marine and non-marine clastic depositional
environments in the Early to Mid-Paleozoic. Reef complexes
developed above these Caledonian-cored platforms, forming important
yet underexplored Paleozoic reservoirs.
The study leverages Frogtech Geoscience's proprietary potential
field geophysics interpretation process that includes detailed
integrations of gravity and magnetic data, basement terranes and
composition, and iterative tectonic and reconstructed
paleogeographic analysis, to produce the SEEBASE depth-to-basement
and present-day basement heat flow model.
More information on Frogtech Geoscience, SEEBASE® and the North
Atlantic Region SEEBASE®
Study: http://www.frogtech.com.au/north-atlantic
About Frogtech Geoscience
Frogtech Geoscience provides industry-leading solutions in
non‐seismic geophysics, geodynamics, structural geology, seismic
and well interpretation, stratigraphy and petroleum systems to
reduce exploration risk. With over 300 client projects worldwide
spanning over 20 years, coupled with an industry-recognised team of
specialists, Frogtech delivers high-quality, innovative geological
studies and consulting services.
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