NORLEX Norwegian Interactive Offshore Stratigraphic Lexicon Felix Gradstein and Oyvind Hammer
Industrial mandate to update the 20+ year old Lithostratigraphic Bulletins 1-5...1600+ wells reported with Formations
NORLEX Meetings and Workshops* Neogene NGU Trondheim, March 2005 Paleogene Statoil and RWE, Fall 2005 Triassic Jurassic,, RWE, November 2005 Jurassic Idemitsu, March 2006 Cretaceous Hydro, April 2006, Statoil, May 2006 Annual Workshop NHM, January 2007 Annual Workshop - NHM, November 2008 Special Worskhop - NPD, October 2009 Twenty working meetings on Paleogene, Cretaceous, Jurassic* Four long-term planning/policy meetings with NPD- NGF Public lectures at many conferences. * About 75 Norwegian professional and academic earth scientists participated
as UK, Stratigraphic Guide. advised NORLEX NORLEX to to follow follow the the rules rules and and in the the International International Stratigraphic Guide. same strat strat guidelines guidelines and and time time scale scale as UK, Netherlands = ICS ICS Guidelines. Guidelines. International Commission on Stratigraphy www.stratigraphy.org Danmark, The Netherlands Norway Norway follows follows same In 2005 NSK advised guidelines guidelines laid laid out out in Danmark, The In 2005 NSK
Interactive Oracle System for Biostratigraphy, Taxonomy and Well Correlations 12000 offshore fossil names + synonyms
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Norlex Lithostratigraphy Concept
Norlex Lithostratigraphy Updates
Neogene Litho - Biostratigraphy, northern North Sea Anthonissen (2008 and 2009): PhD committee Smelror, Laursen,Vandenberghe, Hilgen,, Gradstein)
Thickness Map Hordaland Group, northern North Sea, with lineaments Wells with rings have Rogaland + Hordaland tops Red wells have biostrat = clickable
The final manuscript of this study was reviewed in detail by Jon Gjelberg, James Ogg,, Vigdis Løvø, Tom Dreyer and Mike Charnock. P/E before 2003 P/E boundary
Egga Member is used widely Not formally defined Now formally defined in Norlex
Cretaceous Norwegian Sea NORLEX Proposed Units in RED
CRET. JURASSIC TRI. U M L Haut. Valang. Ryaz. Volg. Kimm. Oxf. Call. Bath. Bajoc. Aalen. Toarc. Plienc. Sinem. Hett. Rhæt. NORLEX Jurassic lithostratigraphy SOUTHERN North Sea Mandal Fm. Farsund Fm. E Haugesund Fm. Ula Fm. Ness Fm. NORWEGIAN- DANISH BASIN Flekkefjord Fm. Sauda Fm. Tau Fm. Egersund Fm. Tarbert Fm. Fjerritslev Fm. Gassum Fm. SOUTHERN Viking Graben BRENT GP. DUNLIN GP. Tarbert Fm. Ness Fm. Etive Fm. STATFJORD GP. NORTHERN NORTH SEA VIKING GP Rannoch Fm. TRØNDELAG PLATFORM Draupne Fm. Heather Fm. Not Fm. Ror Fm. BÅT GP. Nor. HEGRE GP S: Sognefjord Fm. F: Fensfjord Fm. K: Krossfjord Fm. O: Oseberg Fm. B: Broom Fm. E: Eldfisk Mbr. A: Atrid Mbr. Fr: Fraoch Mbr. F: Fenris Mbr. A Munin Mbr Fr FHeather Fm. B Drake Fm. Cook Fm. Burton Fm. Amundsen Fm. Johansen Fm. Nansen Fm. Eriksson Fm. O Raude Fm. S F K Rogn Fm. Åre Fm. HALTEN TERRACE Garn Fm. FANGST GP. Ile Fm. Tofte Fm. Tilje Fm. NORDLAND RIDGE
Triassic lithostratigraphy,, North Sea NPD Bulletin # 3, 1984 Lervik 2006
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We like to acknowledge the Norwegian operations of Chevron, Dong, ENI, Endeavour Energy, RWE, Hydro, Idemitsu, Lundin,, ConocoPhillips, Shell and Statoil for financial support. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate provided detailed access to cultural and science technical data in and behind the Fakta Siden. The International Commission on Stratigraphy provided long term guidance and advice with the standards and nomenclature in stratigraphy Many scientific administrators and geoscientists and have made vital v contributions. In particular, we like to acknowledge Elen Roaldset,, Elisabeth Aronsen and Arne Stabell, respectively ex-director, Executive Secretary and IT Manager of the Museum of Natural History that houses and administrates NORLEX, Eric Toogood,, Manager of the Diskos Project, and geoscience colleagues Harald Brunstad,, Mike Charnock, Terje Hellem,, Erik Anthonissen, Sorin Filipescu,, Mike Kaminski, James Ogg,, Adam Lugowski, Filippos Tsikalas,, Steve Crittenden, Luis Vergara,, Winfried Dallmann,, Robert Williams, Jon Gjelberg,, Tom Dreyer, Vigdis, Løvø, Gitte Laursen,, Iain Prince, Martin Pearce and Jan Zalasiewicz.
The Near Future The lack of response from people who are and should be involved in the lithostratigraphy of the various parts of the succession is unbelievable The time is clearly ripe for UK/Danish/Dutch/Norwegian cooperation on British and Norwegian systems must now be coordinated David Worsley NSK must act now to help bringing NORLEX in The Geoscience Community
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