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AAPG Bulletin; Year: 2022; Issue: March DOI: 10.1306/07132120084
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Figure 31.
Petroleum systems events chart summary for the North Sea Rift Super Basin. The key to the prolific success of the basin is the fact that multiple reservoir-seal pairs occur in traps that were extant before postrift subsidence led the main Upper Jurassic source rock to become mature. As such, the North Sea shares characteristics with other highly prospective global rifts.
Figure 31. Petroleum systems events chart summary for the North Sea Rift Super Basin. The key to the prolific success of the basin is the fact that multiple reservoir-seal pairs occur in traps that were extant before postrift subsidence led the main Upper Jurassic source rock to become mature. As such, the North Sea shares characteristics with other highly prospective global rifts.