Outcrop
Analogues in
Taggart, Samantha1,
The Permian Rotliegend
gas play of the UK Southern North Sea consists of eolian
sandstones that pass laterally northwards into evaporate-rich lacustrine claystones. Previous
development of the
Four main facies,
muddy sabkha, sandy sabkha,
aeolian dune and fluvial, have been identified in a
series of wetting up sequences from detailed sedimentary logs of cores from
within North Sea quadrants 48 and 49. The well exposed Page (eolian/sabkha) and Cedar Mesa (eolian/fluvial)
Sandstones in southern
Sedimentological logs and fence panels
from these outcrop analogues have enabled the lateral extent of sandbody units and their connectivity to be mapped in three
dimensions. Quantitative data collected from the field analogues constrains facies architecture and hence the vertical and lateral
heterogeneity expected in the Rotliegend feather-edge
play of the
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