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    This document summarizes a conference paper about new data on the Triassic period stratigraphy in the South Viking Graben offshore Norway. The paper presents an integrated biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and chemostratigraphy analysis of selected wells to develop a chronostratigraphic framework for the Triassic. The analyses date the Skagerrak Formation to the Carnian to Norian stages, spanning approximately 20 million years. Sediment transport directions identified from dipmeter data indicate the influence of antecedent drainage networks and the coexistence of multiple sediment pathways.

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    This document summarizes a conference paper about new data on the Triassic period stratigraphy in the South Viking Graben offshore Norway. The paper presents an integrated biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and chemostratigraphy analysis of selected wells to develop a chronostratigraphic framework for the Triassic. The analyses date the Skagerrak Formation to the Carnian to Norian stages, spanning approximately 20 million years. Sediment transport directions identified from dipmeter data indicate the influence of antecedent drainage networks and the coexistence of multiple sediment pathways.

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    This document summarizes a conference paper about new data on the Triassic period stratigraphy in the South Viking Graben offshore Norway. The paper presents an integrated biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and chemostratigraphy analysis of selected wells to develop a chronostratigraphic framework for the Triassic. The analyses date the Skagerrak Formation to the Carnian to Norian stages, spanning approximately 20 million years. Sediment transport directions identified from dipmeter data indicate the influence of antecedent drainage networks and the coexistence of multiple sediment pathways.

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    This document summarizes a conference paper about new data on the Triassic period stratigraphy in the South Viking Graben offshore Norway. The paper presents an integrated biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and chemostratigraphy analysis of selected wells to develop a chronostratigraphic framework for the Triassic. The analyses date the Skagerrak Formation to the Carnian to Norian stages, spanning approximately 20 million years. Sediment transport directions identified from dipmeter data indicate the influence of antecedent drainage networks and the coexistence of multiple sediment pathways.

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    New data from an old province - The Triassic in the South Viking Graben,
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    Conference Paper · January 2021

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    New data from an old province - The Triassic in the South Viking Graben, Norway
    Silvan Hoth1, Allard Willem Martinius2, Simone Isabelle Huwe1, Andras Uhrin3, Carsten Vahle3,

    Zbynek Veselovsky3, Michael Urbat4 and John Martin5


    1EquinorASA, Forusbeen 50, 4050 Stavanger, Norway; 2Equinor ASA, Rotvoll, Arkitekt Ebbells veg 10, 7053 Ranheim, Norway; 3Eriksfiord,
    Stavanger, Norway; 4CGG, North Wales, LL30 1SA, Llandudno, UK, now at University of Cologne, 50674 Köln, Germany; 5Chemostrat Ltd. 1
    Ravenscroft Court, Buttington Enterprise Park, Welshpool, SY21 8SL UK

    The Triassic in the NO sector of the South Viking Graben (SVG) has been historically subdivided into
    the shale-prone Smith Bank Fm. and the sand-rich Skagerrak Fm. The presence of several mudstone
    members in the UK sector provided the base for a chronostratigraphic subdivision. Such information
    is missing from the NO sector, because of the overall sand-rich nature of the Skagerrak Fm. Harsh
    environmental conditions inhibited the blooming and preservation of life forms. Consequently, most
    samples are barren of microfossils, resulting in a scarce biostratigraphic record. Seismic correlation
    between wells is limited by the lack of acoustic impedance contrasts within the Triassic section. Also,
    the patchy reflectivity pattern is commonly overprinted by multiples. Furthermore, the sand-rich
    nature of the Skagerrak Fm. does not allow for a robust estimation of well based structural tilt,
    hampering well correlation.

    Results from an integration of biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy provide


    the basis for introducing a chronostratigraphic framework of the Triassic in the NO sector of the SVG.
    Wells were selected based on core length, stratigraphic variability, structural position and availability
    of dipmeter data. The latter were not only used to correct sample dip for magnetostratigraphic
    analysis but also to identify potential unconformities, faults and growth strata, important for any
    correlation approach.

    Cross-correlation and cross-validation between the three stratigraphic methods revealed a Carnian to
    Norian age of the Skagerrak Fm., spanning ca. 20Ma. These results do not allow for a detailed
    chronostratigraphic correlation of lithologically similar sandy and heterolithic reservoir units.
    Dipmeter derived sediment transport directions indicate the importance of antecedent drainage, as
    well as the co-existence and interfingering of several sediment pathways with intermittent
    sedimentation shadows. A direct control of minibasin subsidence and turtle structure formation on
    drainage direction or facies distribution is below the resolution of the employed methods. In
    conclusion, today’s Triassic facies distribution is primarily a function of (i) antecedent drainage, (ii)
    Triassic extension of e.g. the Ling Graben and (iii) patchy preservation of the Triassic in response to
    the Aalenian unconformity, lasting for up to 35Ma.

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