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Description / Table of Contents: Ireland is virtually encircled by sedimentary basins which developed in response to periods of rifting and thermal subsidence. These offshore basins have been the focus of intermittent phases of exploration since drilling of the first well in 1970 and, to date, 136 wells have been drilled. Most of the drilling so far has concentrated on structural traps, but recent exploration has begun to focus on a variety of stratigraphic traps, with greater emphasis on results obtained from studies of the Atlantic margin basins. The Petroleum Exploration of Ireland's Offshore Basins contains a set of 27 papers on a wide range of topics relating to recent exploration of the Irish offshore sedimentary basins. These papers address aspects of the structural and stratigraphic evolution, thermal history, petroleum systems, reservoir geology and sea-bed processes in the Irish offshore area. Although the main focus is on petroleum systems and those issues bearing on exploration risk, the exploration effort has yielded fundamental new insight into the wider development of starved passive continental margins. The volume will be of interest to oil industry explorationists and researchers focusing on NW European sedimentary basins and the evolution of the Irish Atlantic margin.

Description / Table of Contents: P. D. W. Haughton, S. P. Todd, and A. C. Morton: Sedimentary provenance studies / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:1-11, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.01 --- P. Allen: Provenance research: Torridonian and Wealden / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:13-21, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.02 --- Gian Gaspare Zuffa: On the use of turbidite arenites in provenance studies: critical remarks / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:23-29, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.03 --- Andrew C. Morton: Geochemical studies of detrital heavy minerals and their application to provenance research / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:31-45, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.04 --- Amparo Tortosa, Marta Palomares, and José Arribas: Quartz grain types in Holocene deposits from the Spanish Central System: some problems in provenance analysis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:47-54, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.05 --- Abhijit Basu and Emanuela Molinaroli: Reliability and application of detrital opaque Fe-Ti oxide minerals in provenance determination / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:55-65, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.06 --- Anthony J. Hurford and Andrew Carter: The role of fission track dating in discrimination of provenance / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:67-78, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.07 --- D. J. Batten: Reworking of plant microfossils and sedimentary provenance / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:79-90, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.08 --- Michael A. Velbel and Mounir K. Saad: Palaeoweathering or diagenesis as the principal modifier of sandstone framework composition? A case study from some Triassic rift-valley redbeds of eastern North America / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:91-99, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.09 --- A. E. Milodowski and J. A. Zalasiewicz: Redistribution of rare earth elements during diagenesis of turbidite/hemipelagite mudrock sequences of Llandovery age from central Wales / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:101-124, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.10 --- R. Valloni, D. Lazzari, and M. A. Calzolari: Selective alteration of arkose framework in Oligo-Miocene turbidites of the Northern Apennines foreland: impact on sedimentary provenance analysis / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:125-136, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.11 --- R. A. Cliff, S. E. Drewery, and M. R. Leeder: Sourcelands for the Carboniferous Pennine river system: constraints from sedimentary evidence and U-Pb geochronology using zircon and monazite / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:137-159, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.12 --- Jane A. Evans, Philip Stone, and James D. Floyd: Isotopic characteristics of Ordovician greywacke provenance in the Southern Uplands of Scotland / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:161-172, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.13 --- P. A. Floyd, R. Shail, B. E. Leveridge, and W. Franke: Geochemistry and provenance of Rhenohercynian synorogenic sandstones: implications for tectonic environment discrimination / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:173-188, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.14 --- Christopher M. Gerrard: Sedimentary petrology and the archaeologist: the study of ancient ceramics / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:189-197, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.15 --- John R. Graham, John P. Wrafter, Stephen Daly, and Julian F. Menuge: A local source for the Ordovician Derryveeny Formation, western Ireland: implications for the Connemara Dalradian / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:199-213, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.16 --- T. McCann: Petrological and geochemical determination of provenance in the southern Welsh Basin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:215-230, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.17 --- Duncan Pirrie: Controls on the petrographic evolution of an active margin sedimentary sequence: the Larsen Basin, Antarctica / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:231-249, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.18 --- Bernard Humphreys, Andrew C. Morton, Claire R. Hallsworth, Robert W. Gatliff, and James B. Riding: An integrated approach to provenance studies: a case example from the Upper Jurassic of the Central Graben, North Sea / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:251-262, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.19 --- José Arribas and M. Eugenia Arribas: Petrographic evidence of different provenance in two alluvial fan systems (Palaeogene of the northern Tajo Basin, Spain) / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:263-271, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.20 --- I. R. Garden: Changes in the provenance of pebbly detritus in southern Britain and northern France associated with basin rifting / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:273-289, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.21 --- Gary Nichols, Kusnama, and Robert Hall: Sandstones of arc and ophiolite provenance in backarc basin, Halmahera, eastern Indonesia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:291-303, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.22 --- Peter A. Cawood: Nature and record of igneous activity in the Tonga arc, SW Pacific, deduced from the phase chemistry of derived detrital grains / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:305-321, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.23 --- Martin J. Evans and Maria A. Mange-Rajetzky: The provenance of sediments in the Barrême thrust-top basin, Haute-Provence, France / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:323-342, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.24 --- Simon J. Cuthbert: Evolution of the Devonian Hornelen Basin, west Norway: new constraints from petrological studies of metamorphic clasts / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 57:343-360, doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1991.057.01.25

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Subaqueous mass movements in the context of observations of contemporary slope failure / Joshu J. Mountjoy, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Jason Chaytor, Michael A. Clare, Davide Gamboa and Jasper Moernaut / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 1-12, 26 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-237 --- Section A: consequences and implications --- Revisiting the tsunamigenic volcanic flank collapse of Fogo Island in the Cape Verdes, offshore West Africa / Rachel Barrett, Elodie Lebas, Ricardo Ramalho, Ingo Klaucke, Steffen Kutterolf, Andreas Klügel, Katja Lindhorst, Felix Gross and Sebastian Krastel / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 13-26, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-187 --- The sedimentology and tsunamigenic potential of the Byron submarine landslide off New South Wales, Australia / Kendall C. Mollison, Hannah E. Power, Samantha L. Clarke, Alan T. Baxter, Emily M. Lane and Thomas C. T. Hubble / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 27-40, 7 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-160 --- Effects of rotational submarine slump dynamics on tsunami genesis: new insight from idealized models and the 1929 Grand Banks event / T. Zengaffinen, F. Løvholt, G. K. Pedersen and C. B. Harbitz / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 41-61, 11 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-201 --- A scenario-based assessment of the tsunami hazard in Palermo, northern Sicily, and the southern Tyrrhenian Sea / Jack Dignan, Aaron Micallef, Christof Mueller, Attilio Sulli, Elisabetta Zizzo and Daniele Spatola / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 63-80, 31 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-181 --- A workflow for the rapid assessment of the landslide-tsunami hazard in peri-alpine lakes / Michael Strupler, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Michael Hilbe, Katrina Kremer and Stefan Wiemer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 81-95, 18 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-166 --- Towards a national-scale assessment of the subaqueous mass movement hazard in Canada / D. Gwyn Lintern, Jessica Rutherford, Philip R. Hill, Calvin Campbell and Alexandre Normandeau / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 97-113, 11 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-206 --- Structural constraints on the subduction of mass-transport deposits in convergent margins / Jacob Geersen, Andrea Festa and Francesca Remitti / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 115-128, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-174 --- Evaluating the sealing potential of young and thin mass-transport deposits: Lake Villarrica, Chile / Jasper Moernaut, Gauvain Wiemer, Achim Kopf and Michael Strasser / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 129-146, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-155 --- Influence of mass transport deposit (MTD) surface topography on deep-water deposition: an example from a predominantly fine-grained continental margin, New Zealand / Suzanne Bull, Greg H. Browne, Malcolm J. Arnot and Lorna J. Strachan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 147-171, 28 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-192 --- Section B: initiation, triggers and preconditioning --- A multi-disciplinary investigation of the AFEN Slide: the relationship between contourites and submarine landslides / Ricarda Gatter, Michael A. Clare, James E. Hunt, Millie Watts, B. N. Madhusudhan, Peter J. Talling and Katrin Huhn / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 173-193, 28 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-184 --- Indonesian Throughflow as a preconditioning mechanism for submarine landslides in the Makassar Strait / Rachel E. Brackenridge, Uisdean Nicholson, Benyamin Sapiie, Dorrik Stow and Dave R. Tappin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 195-217, 1 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-171 --- Morphological signature of gully development by rapid slide retrogression in a layered coarse-grained delta foreslope / Jacques Locat, Ali Azizian, Jim Stronach, Aurélien Hospital, Chris Young, Dominique Turmel and Andrew Bevan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 219-234, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-159 --- Morphology and spatio-temporal distribution of lacustrine mass-transport deposits in Wörthersee, Eastern Alps, Austria / Christoph Daxer, Maddalena Sammartini, Ariana Molenaar, Thomas Piechl, Michael Strasser and Jasper Moernaut / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 235-254, 19 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-179 --- A numerical investigation of excess pore pressures and continental slope stability in response to ice-sheet dynamics / Morelia Urlaub, Isabel Kratzke and Berit Oline Hjelstuen / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 255-266, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-185 --- Impact of sea-level fluctuations on the sedimentation patterns of the SE African margin: implications for slope instability / Aaron Micallef, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Andrew Green and Vittorio Maselli / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 267-276, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-172 --- Geomechanical behaviour of gassy soils and implications for submarine slope stability: a literature analysis / P. Kaminski, M. Urlaub, J. Grabe and C. Berndt / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 277-288, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-149 --- From gravity cores to overpressure history: the importance of measured sediment physical properties in hydrogeological models / Davide Mencaroni, Jaume Llopart, Roger Urgeles, Sara Lafuerza, Eulàlia Gràcia, Anne Le Friant and Morelia Urlaub / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 289-300, 22 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-176 --- The influence of clay content on submarine slope failure: insights from laboratory experiments and numerical models / M. M. W. Silver and B. Dugan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 301-309, 26 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-186 --- Subduction of an extinct rift and its role in the formation of submarine landslides in NW South America / Carlos A. Vargas, Gustavo A. Gutiérrez and Gustavo A. Sarmiento / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 311-322, 12 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-189 --- Section C: characterization and regional controls --- Mass wasting on Alpha Ridge in the Arctic Ocean: new insights from multibeam bathymetry and sub-bottom profiler data / Kai Boggild, David C. Mosher, Paola Travaglini, Catalina Gebhardt and Larry Mayer / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 323-340, 13 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-196 --- The Last Glacial Maximum Balearic Abyssal Plain megabed revisited / Antonio Cattaneo, Shray Badhani, Cristina Caradonna, Massimo Bellucci, Estelle Leroux, Nathalie Babonneau, Sébastien Garziglia, Jeffrey Poort, Grigorii G. Akhmanov, Germain Bayon, Bernard Dennielou, Gwenäel Jouet, Sébastien Migeon, Marina Rabineau, Laurence Droz and Michael Clare / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 341-357, 14 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-188 --- Integrated geophysical, sedimentological and geotechnical investigation of submarine landslides in the Gulf of Lions (Western Mediterranean) / Shray Badhani, Antonio Cattaneo, Stefano Collico, Roger Urgeles, Bernard Dennielou, Estelle Leroux, Florent Colin, Sebastien Garziglia, Marina Rabineau and Laurence Droz / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 359-376, 14 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-175 --- Characterization of recent deep-sea debrites in the eastern Mediterranean based on foraminiferal taphonomy / Oded Katz, Leeron Ashkenazi, Shani Sultan-Levi, Sigal Abramovich, Ahuva Almogi-Labin and Orit Hyams-Kaphzan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 377-391, 11 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-170 --- Widespread mass-wasting processes off NE Sicily (Italy): insights from morpho-bathymetric analysis / Daniele Casalbore, Romano Clementucci, Alessandro Bosman, Francesco Latino Chiocci, Eleonora Martorelli and Domenico Ridente / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 393-403, 15 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-195 --- Geomorphology and event-stratigraphy of recent mass-movement processes in Lake Hallstatt (UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape, Austria) / Michael Strasser, T. Berberich, S. Fabbri, M. Hilbe, J-J. S. Huang, S. Lauterbach, M. Ortler, H. Rechschreiter, A. Brauer, F. Anselmetti and K. Kowarik / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 405-426, 31 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-178 --- Slope stability hazard in a fjord environment: Douglas Channel, Canada / Cooper D. Stacey, D. Gwyn Lintern, John Shaw and Kim W. Conway / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 427-451, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-191 --- Submarine canyons, slope failures and mass transport processes in southern Cascadia / Jenna C. Hill, Janet T. Watt, Daniel S. Brothers and Jared W. Kluesner / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 453-475, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-169 --- Tectonic and geomorphic controls on the distribution of submarine landslides across active and passive margins, eastern New Zealand / S. J. Watson, J. J. Mountjoy and G. J. Crutchley / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 477-494, 13 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-165 --- Geological and tectonic controls on morphometrics of submarine landslides of the Spanish margins / Ricardo León, Roger Urgeles, Raul Pérez-López, Emilio Payo, Amanda Vázquez-Izquierdo, Carmen Julia Giménez-Moreno and David Casas / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 495-513, 20 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-153 --- Section D: mobility and kinematics --- Megaclasts within mass-transport deposits: their origin, characteristics and effect on substrates and succeeding flows / Jefferson Nwoko, Ian Kane and Mads Huuse / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 515-530, 31 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-146 --- Line length balancing to evaluate multi-phase submarine landslide development: an example from the Storegga Slide, Norway / Suzanne Bull and Joseph A. Cartwright / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 531-549, 23 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-168 --- A new depositional model for the Tuaheni Landslide Complex, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand / Benjamin Couvin, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Joshu J. Mountjoy, Lawrence Amy, Gareth J. Crutchley, Morgane Brunet, Sebastian Cardona, Felix Gross, Christoph Böttner, Sebastian Krastel and Ingo Pecher / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 551-566, 19 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-180 --- Mass transport deposits in the Donegal Barra Fan and their association with British–Irish Ice Sheet dynamics / Srikumar Roy, Aggeliki Georgiopoulou, Sara Benetti and Fabio Sacchetti / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 567-586, 18 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-177 --- Short- and long-term movement of mudflows of the Mississippi River Delta Front and their known and potential impacts on oil and gas infrastructure / Jason D. Chaytor, Wayne E. Baldwin, Samuel J. Bentley, Melanie Damour, Douglas Jones, Jillian Maloney, Michael D. Miner, Jeff Obelcz and Kehui Xu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 587-604, 26 March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-183 --- Lessons learned from the monitoring of turbidity currents and guidance for future platform designs / Michael Clare, D. Gwyn Lintern, Kurt Rosenberger, John E. Hughes Clarke, Charles Paull, Roberto Gwiazda, Matthieu J. B. Cartigny, Peter J. Talling, Daniel Perara, Jingping Xu, Daniel Parsons, Ricardo Silva Jacinto and Ronan Apprioual / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 605-634, 22 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-173