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The Brae oilfield reservoir in the North Sea comprises Upper Jurassic resedimented conglomerates and sandstones interbedded with organic-rich silstone and mudstone thin-bedded turbidites. The system represents a series of small overlapping fans that form a thick (300 m) slope-apron accumulation of sediments deposited in a narrow (<10 km wide) belt along an active fault zone. The complex lateral and vertical distribution of facies was due mainly to variable tectonic activity, and partly also to sediment supply and sea-level changes.
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Stow, D.A.V. Upper Jurassic overlapping-fans slope-apron system: Brae oilfield, North Sea. Geo-Marine Letters 3, 217–222 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462471
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