North Atlantic Margins Evolution Project (NAME) 2017-2019
This phase of research addressed topics essential to the understanding of predominantly Jurassic to Cretaceous sandstone units that form potential hydrocarbon reservoirs in the MSGBC and Tarfaya basins in Northwest Africa, and the Lusitanian and adjacent basins west of Iberia. Research in the Lusitanian Basin constrained the influence of syn-sedimentary salt tectonics on basin architecture, sediment routing, and sandstone composition and provenance. In Northwest Africa, sandstone provenance in the distal MSGBC and Tarfaya basins was investigated. Detrital heavy mineral signatures of modern river sands in the MSGBC Basin, and of relevant core sections in DSDP/ODP wells on both sides of the Atlantic were generated. Three palaeogeographic facies maps of the entire study region bracket these topics.
Completed: June 2022.
Contact(s): Simon Schneider
Reports Issued in This Project
- Detrital heavy mineral character of DSDP/ODP Site sandstones, from the Equatorial, Central, and southern North Atlantic margins (Late Jurassic-Cretaceous) CASP.NAME2017-19.20
- Three Mesozoic palaeogeographic facies maps of the central North Atlantic CASP.NAME2017-19.19
- Senegambian modern river sand provenance study – links with ancient depositional systems of the MSGBC Basin CASP.NAME2017-19.18
- Life at the continental – marine interface: palaeoenvironments and biota of the Alcobaça Formation (Late Jurassic, central Portugal) CASP.NAME2017-19.17
- A study of the Late Jurassic – earliest Cretaceous of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal: The interplay of sandstone provenance, halokinetics, sediment routing and stratigraphy CASP.NAME2017-19.16
- Jurassic to Early Cretaceous salt tectonics in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal: New insights from fieldwork CASP.NAME2017-19.15
- The Mesozoic succession on Maio, Cabo Verde: facies, stratigraphy and provenance data CASP.NAME2017-19.14
- The composition and character of the Late Jurassic – Earliest Cretaceous sandstones of the Lusitanian Basin CASP.NAME2017-19.13
- The Mesozoic ‘Basal Complex’ on Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain): Analytical results CASP.NAME2017-19.12
- Review on the structural evolution of the Lusitanian Basin CASP.NAME2017-19.11