The 'English Lowlands' and the North Sea Basin System: A History of Shared Risk

SynopsisThis is a brief review intended to supply bases for prediction of future changes in the North Sea Benthos. It surveys long-term changes which are affecting the benthos. Any prediction must take into account change in temperature, depth, bottom type, tidal patterns, current patterns and zoogeography of the sea and the history of these is briefly touched on from late Tertiary times up to the present. From a prediction of changes in the benthos, certain information concerning the pelagic and planktonic biota could also be derived.

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Clay mineral distribution and provenance in Mesozoic and Tertiary mudrocks of the Moray Firth and northern North Sea

Clay Minerals ◽

10.1180/claymin.1990.025.4.10 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

pp. 519-541 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

M. J. Pearson

Keyword(s):

Clay Mineral ◽

North Sea ◽

Volcanic Activity ◽

Volcanic Material ◽

The North ◽

Moray Firth ◽

History Of ◽

The North Sea ◽

Northern North Sea ◽

And Control

AbstractClay mineral abundances in Mesozoic and Tertiary argillaceous strata from 15 exploration wells in the Inner and Outer Moray Firth, Viking Graben and East Shetland Basins of the northern North Sea have been determined in <0·2 µm fractions of cuttings samples. The clay assemblages of more deeply-buried samples cannot be unambiguously related to sedimentary input because of the diagenetic overprint which may account for much of the chlorite and related interstratified minerals. Other sediments, discussed on a regional basis and related to the geological history of the basins, are interpreted in terms of clay mineral provenance and control by climate, tectonic and volcanic activity. The distribution of illite-smectite can often be related to volcanic activity both in the Forties area during the M. Jurassic, and on the NE Atlantic continental margin during the U. Cretaceous-Early Tertiary which affected the North Sea more widely and left a prominent record in the Viking Graben and East Shetland Basin. Kaolinite associated with lignite-bearing sediments in the Outer Moray Firth Basin was probably derived by alteration of volcanic material in lagoonal or deltaic environments. Some U. Jurassic and L. Cretaceous sediments of the Inner Moray Basin are rich in illite-smectite, the origin of which is not clear.

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Case history of a six‐streamer seismic survey in the North Sea

10.1190/1.1888896 ◽

1991 ◽

Author(s):

Gary Hampson ◽

Terje Hansen ◽

H. Jakubowicz ◽

John V. Kingston

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

Case History ◽

Seismic Survey ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

The North Sea

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OSPAR Ecological Quality Objectives: the utility of health indicators for the North Sea

ICES Journal of Marine Science ◽

10.1093/icesjms/fsn159 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 65 (8) ◽

pp. 1392-1397 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

Peter Heslenfeld ◽

E. Lisette Enserink

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

Health Indicators ◽

Ecosystem Approach ◽

Current Status ◽

Test Case ◽

Ecological Quality ◽

Marine Research ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

The North Sea

Abstract Heslenfeld, P., and Enserink, E. L. 2008. OSPAR Ecological Quality Objectives: the utility of health indicators for the North Sea. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 1392–1397. Committed to the ecosystem approach to management, OSPAR has accumulated 15 years of experience in developing a conceptual framework for ecological indicators and objectives, and in applying the framework to the North Sea as a test case. These Ecological Quality Objectives (EcoQOs) have become a model for the implementation of the new European Marine Strategy Framework Directive. We describe the history of EcoQO development, its current status, and future needs. We also present our positive and negative experiences in developing the approach, and conclude that regional sea conventions and marine research institutes in Europe should join forces to accelerate the development of ecosystem indicators and objectives, using existing concepts.

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Connect and Divide

The Journal of Transport History ◽

10.7227/tjth.35.2.5 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 200-219

Author(s):

Eike-Christian Heine

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

Military Strategy ◽

Environmental Consequences ◽

The North ◽

Starting Point ◽

History Of ◽

The North Sea ◽

The Baltic ◽

Kiel Canal

The Kiel Canal (built between 1886 and 1895) connects the North Sea and the Baltic for seagoing vessels, yet, being 100 km long, about 10 m deep and 100 m wide, it also divides a landscape. This finding is the starting point for analysing the effects of infrastructure that facilitates communication and exchange but also produces obstructions and rivalries. This article explores the ambiguous effects this piece of infrastructure had on politics, technology, labour, trade and military strategy. The ‘deep ditch’ also had severe environmental consequences that were palpable until well into the twentieth century. By considering both the ‘positive’ and the ‘negative’ of the waterway, the narrative of ‘connect-and-divide’ avoids the still-too-often told affirmative story of transport infrastructure. Instead, it and opens the outlook to a multi-faceted history of transport infrastructures.

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Structural outline and development

Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse Serie B ◽

10.34194/serieb.v8.7063 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 9-26

Author(s):

Claus Andersen ◽

Jens Christian Olsen ◽

Olaf Michelsen ◽

Erik Nygaard

Keyword(s):

North Sea ◽

Early Cretaceous ◽

Southern North Sea ◽

The North ◽

Moray Firth ◽

History Of ◽

The North Sea ◽

Broad Complex ◽

East West ◽

German Basin

The Central Graben is a broad, complex trough with a long history of differential subsidence. It was probably initiated in the Permian and was controlled by major rifting during the Mesozoic. To the south in the Dutch sector the trough is divided into two parts. From here it passes northwards and divides the southern North Sea Basin into the Anglo-Dutch Basin and the Northwest German Basin. It also separates the Mid North Sea High from the Ringkøbing-Fyn High. These highs form broad, east-west trending, relative stable ridges. The further continuation of the Central Graben is to the northwest, towards the centre of the North Sea, where it passes into the Viking Graben and the Moray Firth Basin at about 58° N. Where the Central Graben divides the two major highs, there is an elongate central narrow horst, the Dogger High, which is the southernmost of a row of mid-Graben highs. Both sides of the Graben are clearly defined by normal rotational faults that were intermittently active from Triassic to Early Cretaceous times.

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Investigation of the Alexander L. Kielland Failure—Metallurgical and Fracture Analysis

Journal of Energy Resources Technology ◽

10.1115/1.3231014 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 106 (1) ◽

pp. 24-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

A. Almar-Naess ◽

P. J. Haagensen ◽

B. Lian ◽

T. Moan ◽

T. Simonsen

Keyword(s):

Fatigue Life ◽

Fatigue Fracture ◽

North Sea ◽

Fracture Analysis ◽

Early History ◽

Cumulative Damage ◽

Fillet Weld ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

The North Sea

On March 27, 1980, the semi-submersible platform Alexander L. Kielland broke down in a storm in the North sea, resulting in a loss of 123 lives. The investigation subsequently performed by the inquiry commission showed that one of the lower tubular bracings had failed by fatigue. As a result, the vertical leg attached to it was torn off, and the platform capsized. The fatigue fracture had started from a double fillet weld joining a 0.325-m tubular attachment to the bracing. The fillet welds were partially cracked in the early history of the platform due to lammelar tearing. Cumulative damage calculations indicated that the design fatigue life of the bracing was inadequate.

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The North Sea Continental Shelf Cases—A Critique

The American Journal of International Law ◽

10.2307/2198663 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 229-240 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Wolfgang Friedmann

Keyword(s):

Continental Shelf ◽

International Law ◽

North Sea ◽

International Court Of Justice ◽

New Developments ◽

The North ◽

Continental Shelves ◽

International Court ◽

History Of ◽

The North Sea

The decision of the International Court of Justice in the North Sea Continental Shelf Cases is surely one of the most interesting as well as debatable decisions in the history of the Court. It deals with certain aspects of one of the most important new developments of international law, the doctrine of the Continental Shelf. It also touches on some basic problems of the sources of international law. Among the matters dealt with, in greater or lesser detail, by the Court are the formation of custom in contemporary conditions, the effect of custom upon treaty and, in turn, the possible translation of principles formulated in a multilateral treaty, into universal custom. Above all, the Court was compelled to formulate certain principles of general equity as applicable to the delimitation of the continental shelves between three of the coastal states of the North Sea. It is this attempt of the Court to formulate the general principles of equity applicable to a fair allocation of the resources of the Continental Shelf between neighbors with which the present article will be mainly concerned.

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