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Earth Science — North Sea Petroleum System

Source, reservoir and seal of a working petroleum system.

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North Sea petroleum systemSeabed sediments0.00 mChalk Group (reservoir)Cretaceous0.50 mKimmeridge Clay (source)Late Jurassic1.90 mBrent sandstone (reservoir)Middle Jurassic2.90 mZechstein salt (seal)Permian4.10 mRotliegend sandstonePermian5.70 m6.70 m70 million years missing6 layers, 6.70 m, and the contacts this could check are the right way up — but 1 layer of the 6 carri…1 layer of the 6 carries no `age` — `Seabed sediments`. Superposition is transitive, so the law was still checked A…70 million years are missing between `Zechstein salt (seal)` and `Brent sandstone (reservoir)`: the lower layer end…

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title "North Sea petroleum system"
type column
layer "Seabed sediments"             thickness 0.5 color "#cdb892"
layer "Chalk Group (reservoir)"      thickness 1.4 color "#f1f5f9" age "Cretaceous"
layer "Kimmeridge Clay (source)"     thickness 1.0 color "#1f2937" age "Late Jurassic"
layer "Brent sandstone (reservoir)"  thickness 1.2 color "#eab308" age "Middle Jurassic"
layer "Zechstein salt (seal)"        thickness 1.6 color "#e0f2fe" age "Permian"
layer "Rotliegend sandstone"         thickness 1.0 color "#c97f4a" age "Permian"