CENTRAL & NORTH ATLANTIC CONJUGATE MARGINS CONFERENCE DUBLIN 2012 THIRD CONJUGATE MARGINS CONFERENCE 2012 ABSTRACTS VOLUME www.conjugatemargins.ie We sincerely thank all our sponsors, partners and supporters who contributed to the success of the Third Conjugate Margins Conference 2012 CENTRAL & NORTH ATLANTIC CONJUGATE MARGINS CONFERENCE DUBLIN 2012 Platinum Seismic Data Room Gold Bronze Suirbhéireacht Gheolaíochta Éireann Geological Survey of Ireland Supporters Third Central & North Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference Trinity College Dublin, 22-24 August 2012 CONTENTS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 1 A New Kinematic Plate Reconstruction of the North Atlantic between Ireland and Canada 2 Bridget Ady and Richard C. Whittaker Hyperextension, weakening and crustal folding in the North Atlantic domain 4 Anthony G. Doré, Erik R. Lundin and Susann Wienecke Depositional environments and source distribution across hyper-extended rifted margins of the North Atlantic: Insights from the Iberia-Newfoundland margin 7 Garry D. Karner, Christopher A. Johnson, Geoffrey Mohn and Gianreto Manatschal Drainage evolution in Mesozoic NE Atlantic margin basins: sand sourcing, scales and sediment pathways 18 Shane Tyrrell, Peter D.W. Haughton, Áine McElhinney, Patrick M. Shannon and J. Stephen Daly Exploring the Equatorial Atlantic 20 Jerome Kelly ORAL PRESENTATIONS 25 Post-rift vertical movements in NW Africa: searching a model for excessive subsidence and exhumation 26 Giovanni Bertotti, Mohamed Gouiza and Ibrahim J. Barrie Post-rift km-scale uplift of passive continental margins can be caused by compressive stresses 27 James A. Chalmers Overpressure regimes of the Atlantic passive margin and pore pressure prediction 29 Alistair Chaney Basement Influence within the Lusitanian Basin 31 Karen Connors, Lynn Pryer, Ron McWhorter and Bill Torguson Determining the COB Location along the Galicia Bank and Iberian Margin from Gravity Inversion, Residual Depth Anomaly and Subsidence Analysis 33 Leanne Cowie and Nick Kusznir Key Stratigraphic Elements within Orphan Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada 35 Lynn T. Dafoe, Charlotte E. Keen, Graham L. Williams and Sonya A. Dehler Conjugate Margins of the Equatorial Atlantic: similarities and differences 37 Ian Davison Early Cretaceous Volcanism in the Porcupine Basin, Atlantic Margin of Ireland: Key Seismic Traverses yield new Insights into the Origin of the Porcupine Median Volcanic Ridge 39 Menno G. Dinkelman, Gèrôme Calves, Taija Torvela and Mads Huuse Seismic Imaging of Sedimentary Features Relative to a Buried Palaeo-Volcano, offshore Morocco 41 Dallas B. Dunlap and Lesli J. Wood 2012 Exploration and Production Update on the Mesozoic Basins, Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Continental Margin 43 Michael Enachescu, Wes Foote, Ian Atkinson and John R. Hogg Tracing Deep Lithospheric Structures along the Passive Margin of Norway, its Greenland Conjugate, and Possible Implications for Rifting 45 Sofie Gradmann and Jörg Ebbing Abstracts Volume Page i Third Central & North Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference Trinity College Dublin, 22-24 August 2012 Exhumation following post-breakup subsidence is a common feature of "Passive" margins 46 Paul F. Green, Ian R. Duddy, Peter Japsen, James Chalmers and Johan Bonow The Palaeogeographic and Palaeo-Climatic History of the Central and North Atlantic Conjugate Margin Basins: The Predictive Mapping of Source and Reservoir Facies 49 Jim Harris, Edward Anderson, Alberto Adriasola Munoz, Rob Crossley, Claire Glover, Nick Stronach, Mike Goodrich, Paul Valdes and Roger Proctor Mizzen – An Overview of the First Oil Discovery in the Flemish Pass Basin, East Coast Offshore Newfoundland 51 Simon Haynes, Michael McDonough, Kai Gruschwitz, Trevor Johnson and Ed Stacey Interpretation of Tectonics of Passive Margin of NE Greenland from New Seismic Reflection Data and Geological - Geophysical Constraints 52 James A. Helwig, Richard C. Whittaker, Menno G. Dinkelman, Peter A. Emmet and Dale E. Bird The influence of compaction on the development of rollover anticlines: an example from the western Niger Delta 57 Hamed Fazli Khani and Stefan Back Crustal Structure, Subsidence History and Stretching within the Ocean-Continent-Transition of the Conjugate Ireland and Newfoundland North Atlantic Margins 58 Nick Kusznir, Alan Roberts, Andy Alvey, Richard C. Whittaker and Kateřina Štolfová Sequence stratigraphy as a tool in predicting petroleum systems of the Irish margin and their context in the palaeogeographic evolution of the North Atlantic conjugate margin 60 Sarah F. Laird, K. Evans and M. Booker New wide-angle seismic constraints across a magma-starved, hyper-extended North Atlantic rift basin – Orphan Basin 61 K.W. Helen Lau, Louise Watremez, Keith E. Louden, Mladen R. Nedimović, J. Kim Welford and Garry D. Karner The hyperextended mid-Norwegian margin - implications for exploration 63 Erik R. Lundin, Anthony G. Doré and Susann Wienecke Tectonic Control on Sediment Supply and Reservoir Supply to Conjugate Atlantic Margins 65 Duncan Macgregor Deep Penobscot, An Analogue to Deep Panuke – Are more Jurassic Reefs Lurking Offshore Nova Scotia? 67 Robert K. Merrill and Kevin B. Hill The Palinspastic and Sequence Stratigraphic Context of the Conjugate Margin of North America and North West Africa 69 Ailsa C.E. Messer, Euphrasia Z.C. Wong, Colin C. Saunders, Nick P. Harper, Mark A.N. Reynald and Charlotte M.C. Adams Exploration Update from Atlantic Ireland 70 Noel Murphy, Michael Hanrahan, Clare Morgan and Oonagh O’Loughlin Seismic stratigraphic analysis of the Cenozoic sediments in NW Faroe-Shetland Basin – implications for inherited structural control of sediment distribution 71 Jana Ólavsdóttir, Morten Sparre Anderson and Lars Ole Boldreel Controls on feldspar diagenesis, as seen in the Lower Cretaceous sandstones of the Scotian Basin, Canada 73 Georgia Pe-Piper Abstracts Volume Page ii Third Central & North Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference Trinity College Dublin, 22-24 August 2012 Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Southwest Iberian margin: a tail of the Central Atlantic 75 Ricardo Pereira, Tiago M. Alves and Joe Cartwright Significance of the “Outer Marginal Detachment” (OMD) in rifting: seismic examples from Florida and around the world 77 James Pindell, Rod Graham and Brian Horn Cretaceous basement tectonics of Nova Scotia: what was the driver? 79 David J.W. Piper and Georgia Pe-Piper Continental breakup and the formation of conjugate magma-poor margins in North Atlantic: mechanism, symmetry and the extension discrepancy 81 Tim Reston and Ken McDermott The Thermal History of the Mesozoic Algarve Basin (South Portugal) and its implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration 83 Bruno Rodrigues, Paulo Fernandes, Vasco Matos, Marisa Borges and Geoff Clayton Plate kinematics of the Bay of Biscay 85 Jean-Claude Sibuet and Shiri Srivastava The Lithospheric Breakup Surface and the Breakup Sequence: the Syn- to Post-Rift Transition on the West Iberian Margin – Newfoundland 86 Duarte Soares and Tiago M. Alves New insights into the regional Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of the Irish offshore continental margin 88 Kateřina Štolfová, Richard C. Whittaker and Patrick M. Shannon The Irish Atlantic Margin: Petroleum system analogies from the UK continental shelf and Atlantic conjugate margins 90 Andre Stout Regional variations in Source Rock maturation in the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal) – the role of rift events, subsidence, sedimentation rate, uplift and erosion 91 Bernardo A. Teixeira, Nuno Pimentel and Rui Pena dos Reis Early Opening History of the African Transform Margin and its Influence on Upper Cretaceous Deepwater Depositional Systems in the Deep Ivorian Basin 94 Philip Towle, Danny Addis, Allen Brown, John Layman and Keith Mahon Analogues for Atlantic Canada Reservoirs from the Wessex (England) and Lusitanian (Portugal) Basins 98 Grant D. Wach, Nuno Pimentel and Rui Pena dos Reis Correlating Caledonide-Appalachian terranes and structures beneath the conjugate margins of Atlantic Canada and NW Europe 100 John W.F. Waldron and David I. Schofield Exploration in the West Porcupine Basin: Paleocene Potential 101 Matthew Warner, Jerry Chessell, Henry Charlampowicz, Steve Morse and Kevin Shrimpton Deformable Plate Reconstructions for the North Atlantic as a Basis for Palaeogeographic Mapping and the Construction of Palaeo-Digital Elevation Models 103 John Watson, Alberto Adriasola Munoz, Claire Glover, Jim Harris, Mike Goodrich and Lynne Hudson Comparison of lithosphere structure across the Orphan Basin/Flemish Cap and Irish Atlantic conjugate continental margins from constrained 3-D gravity inversions 104 J. Kim Welford, Patrick M. Shannon, Brian M. O’Reilly and Jeremy Hall Abstracts Volume Page iii Third Central & North Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference Trinity College Dublin, 22-24 August 2012 Geological Constraints for a New Plate Reconstruction of the Newfoundland Continental Margin 106 Richard C. Whittaker, Kateřina Štolfová and Patrick M. Shannon Play Risks and Volumes - Offshore Nova Scotia 108 Hamish Wilson, Matt Luheshi, David Roberts and Bernard Colletta POSTER PRESENTATIONS 114 A New Kinematic Plate Reconstruction of the North Atlantic between Ireland and Canada: Poster Presentation 115 Bridget Ady and Richard C. Whittaker Numerical model investigation of salt tectonics during continental rifting: effects of crustal extension, margin tilt, salt flow and sediment loading 117 Janice Allen and Christopher Beaumont Impact of inconsistent density scaling on physical analogue models of continental