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2024

Mcphee & Handy

Post‐Collisional Reorganisation of the Eastern Alps in 4D – Crust and Mantle Structure.

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2023

LAYFIELD, SCHOFIELD, WATSON, HOLFORD, JOLLEY, KILHAMS, MUIRHEAD, ROBERTS, ALVEY, ELLWOOD & WIDDOWSON

3D Seismic reflection evidence for lower crustal intrusions beneath the Faroe–Shetland Basin, NE Atlantic Margin. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 180, 5.

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2022

MCPHEE, KOC & VAN HINSBERGEN

Preparing the ground for plateau growth: Late Neogene Central Anatolian uplift in the context of orogenic and geodynamic evolution since the Cretaceous.

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2021

LOZA ESPEJEL, ALVES & MARTINS-FERREIRA

Depositional and geomorphic patterns of mixed calciclastic‐siliciclastic systems on a deep‐water Equatorial Margin. Basin Research, 33(6).

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VAN HINSBERGEN, STEINBERGER, GUILMETTE, MAFFIONE, GURER, PETERS, PLUNDER, MCPHEE, GAINA & others

A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation.

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2020

ALDANMAZ, VAN HINSBERGEN, YILDIZ-YUKSEKOL, SCHMIDT, MCPHEE, MEISEL, GUCTEKIN & MASON

Effects of reactive dissolution of orthopyroxene in producing incompatible element depleted melts and refractory mantle residues during early fore-arc spreading: Constraints from ophiolites in eastern Mediterranean.

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BRETAN, YIELDING & SVERDRUP

A knowledge database of hanging-wall traps that are dependent on fault-rock seal.

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GOMEZ-ROMEU, KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & MANATSCHAL

Measurements of the extension required for crustal breakup on the magma-poor Iberia-Newfoundland conjugate margins.

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KAROLYTE, JOHNSON, YIELDING & GILFILLAN

Fault seal modelling – the influence of fluid properties on fault sealing capacity in hydrocarbon and CO2 systems.

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LOZA ESPEJEL & ALVES

Structural and depositional features controlling permeability on carbonate platforms.

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LOZA ESPEJEL, ALVES & BLENKINSOP

Multi-scale fracture network characterisation on carbonate platforms.

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2019

EDMUNDSON, ROTEVATN, DAVIES, YIELDING, & BROBERG

Key controls on hydrocarbon retention and leakage from structural traps in the Hammerfest Basin, SW Barents Sea: implications for prospect analysis and risk assessment.

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LOZA ESPEJEL, ALVES & BLENKINSOP

Distribution and growth styles of isolated carbonate platforms as a function of fault propagation.

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MCPHEE, VAN HINSBERGEN & THOMSON

Thermal history of the western Central Taurides fold-thrust belt: Implications for Cenozoic vertical motions of southern Central Anatolia.

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MCPHEE & VAN HINSBERGEN

Tectonic reconstruction of Cyprus reveals Late Miocene continental collision of Africa and Anatolia.

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ROBERTS, KUSZNIR, YIELDING & BEELEY

Mapping the bathymetric evolution of the Northern North Sea: from Jurassic synrift archipelago through Cretaceous–Tertiary post-rift subsidence.

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2018

ALVEY, ROBERTS & KUSZNIR

What is the thickness of Earth’s crust? Geoscientist

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COOKE, FISHER, MICHIE & YIELDING

Investigating the controls on fault rock distribution in normal faulted shallow burial limestones, Malta, and the implications for fluid flow. Journal of Structural Geology.

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KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & ALVEY

Crustal structure of the conjugate Equatorial Atlantic Margins, derived by gravity anomaly inversion. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 476.

MCPHEE, ALTINER & VAN HINSBERGEN

First Balanced Cross Section Across the Taurides Fold-Thrust Belt: Geological Constraints on the Subduction History of the Antalya Slab in Southern Anatolia.

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MCPHEE, VAN HINSBERGEN, MAFFIONE & ALTINER

Palinspastic Reconstruction Versus Cross-Section Balancing: How Complete Is the Central Taurides Fold-Thrust Belt (Turkey)?

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ROBERTS, ALVEY & KUSZNIR

Crustal structure and heat-flow history in the UK Rockall Basin, derived from backstripping and gravity-inversion analysis. Petroleum Geoscience.

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STEINBERG, ROBERTS, KUSZNIR, SCHAFER & KARCZ

Crustal structure and post-rift evolution of the Levant Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology.

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2017

CLARKE, IMBER, DAVIES, HUNEN, DANIELS & YIELDING

Application of material balance methods to CO2 storage capacity estimation within selected depleted gas reservoirs. Petroleum Geoscience.

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MICHIE, YIELDING & FISHER

Predicting transmissibilities of carbonate-hosted fault zones. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 459.

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2016

BOULT, FREEMAN & YIELDING

Structural interpretation of seismic geologic reality, perspective, and 3-D thinking, in B. Krantz, C. Ormand, and B. Freeman, eds., 3-D structural interpretation: Earth, mind,and machine: AAPG Memoir 111, p. 75–89.

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BRETAN

Trap Analysis: an automated approach for deriving column height predictions in fault-bounded traps. Petroleum Geoscience.

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HAINES, MICHIE, NEILSON & HEALY

Permeability Evolution Across Carbonate Hosted Normal Fault Zones. Marine and Petroleum Geology, Vol. 72, 62-82.

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LAPADAT, IMBER, YIELDING, IACOPINI, MCCAFFREY, LONG & JONES

Occurrence and development of folding related to normal faulting within a mechanically heterogeneous sedimentary sequence: a case study from Inner Moray Firth, UK. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439.

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MICHIE & HAINES

Variability and Heterogeneity of the Petrophysical Properties of Extensional Carbonate Fault Rocks, Malta. Petroleum Geoscience. First published online February 19, 2016, doi: 10.1144/petgeo2015-027.

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YIELDING & FREEMAN

3-D seismic-structural workflows - Examples using the Hat Creek fault system, in B. Krantz, C. Ormand, and B. Freeman, eds., 3-D structural interpretation: Earth, mind, and machine:AAPG Memoir 111, p. 155–171.

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YIELDING

The geometry of branch lines. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 439.

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2015

FREEMAN, QUINN, DILLON, ARNHILD & JAARSMA

Predicting subseismic fracture density and orientation in the Gorm Field, Danish North Sea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 421.

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MICHIE

Influence of host lithofacies on fault rock variation in carbonate fault zones: A case study from the Island of Malta. J. Struct. Geol. 76, 61-79.

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MORLEY & ALVEY

Is spreading prolong, episodic or incipient in the Andaman Sea? Evidence from Deepwater Sedimentation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 98, 446-456.

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YIELDING

Trapping of buoyant fluids in fault-bound structures. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 421.

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2014

WHIPP, JACKSON, GAWTHORPE, DREYER & QUINN

Normal fault array evolution above a reactivated rift fabric; a subsurface example from the northern Horda Platform, Norwegian North Sea. Basin Research. 26, Issue 4, 523-549.

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MICHIE, HAINES, HEALY, NEILSON, TIMMS & WIBBERLEY

Influence of carbonate facies on fault zone architecture. J. Struct. Geol. 65, 82-99.

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HEALY, NEILSON, HAINES, MICHIE, TIMMS & WILSON

An investigation of porosity-velocity relationships in faulted carbonates using outcrop analogues. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 406.

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2013

FLETCHER, KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & HUNSDALE

The formation of a failed contintental breakup basin: The Cenozoic development of the Faroe-Shetland Basin. Basin Research. 25, 1-22.

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ROBERTS, KUSZNIR, CORFIELD, THOMPSON & WOODFINE

Integrated tectonic basin modelling as an aid to understanding deep-water rifted continental margin structure and location. Petroleum Geoscience. 19, 65-88.

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2012

YIELDING

Using probabilistic shale smear modelling to relate SGR predictions of column height to fault-zone heterogeneity. Petroleum Geoscience. 18, 33-42.

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2011

BRETAN, YIELDING, MATHIASSEN & THORSNES

Fault-seal analysis for CO2 storage: an example from the Troll area, Norwegian Continental Shelf. Petroleum Geoscience. 17, 181-192.

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YIELDING, LYKAKIS & UNDERHILL

The role of stratigraphic juxtaposition for seal integrity in proven CO2 fault-bound traps of the Southern North Sea. Petroleum Geoscience. 17, 193-203.

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2010

FREEMAN, BOULT, YIELDING & MENPES

Using empirical geological rules to reduce structural uncertainty in seismic interpretation of faults. J. Struct. Geol. 32, 1668-1676.

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SCOTCHMAN, GILCHRIST, KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & FLETCHER

The breakup of the South Atlantic Ocean: formation of failed spreading axes and blocks of thinned continental crust in the Santos Basin, Brazil and its consequence for petroleum system development. In: Petroleum Geology Conference Series 2010, vol. 7 855-866.

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YIELDING, BRETAN & FREEMAN

Fault Seal Calibration: a brief review In: Geological Society Special Publication, 347, 243-255.

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2009

GREEN, ABDULLAYEV, HOSSACK, RILEY & ROBERTS.

Sedimentation and subsidence in the South Caspian Basin, Azerbaijan In: Geological Society Special Publication, 312, 241-260.

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ROBERTS, CORFIELD, KUSZNIR, MATTHEWS, HANSEN & HOOPER

Mapping palaeostructure and palaeobathymetry along the Norwegian Atlantic continental margin: More and Voring Basin; In: Petroleum Geoscience, vol 15, 27-43.

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2008

MANZOCCHI, ET AL.

Sensitivity of the impact of geological uncertainty on production from faulted and unfaulted shallow-marine oil reservoirs: objectives and methods In: Petroleum Geoscience, vol 14, 3-15.

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WIBBERLEY, YIELDING & DI TORO

Recent advances in the understanding of fault zone internal structure: a review In: Geological Society Special Publication, 299, 5-33.

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2007

BOULT & FREEMAN

Using faults as an aid to horizon mapping in areas of poor 2D seismic: Otway Basin example. MESA Journal, 46, 23-28.

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DEE, YIELDING, FREEMAN, HEALY, KUSZNIR, GRANT & ELLIS

Elastic dislocation modelling for fracture prediction of small-scale fault and fracture network characteristics. In: Fractured Reservoirs, Geological Society Special Publication, 270, 135-151.

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DEE, YIELDING, FREEMAN & BRETAN

A comparison between deterministic and stochastic fault seal techniques. In: Structurally Complex Reservoirs, Geological Society Special Publication, 292, 259-270.

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PARKIN, LUNNON, WHITE, CHRISTIE & iSIMM TEAM

Imaging the pulsing Iceland mantle plume through the Eocene. In: Geology, January 2007, v35, 93-96.

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2006

SCOTCHMAN, MARAIS-GILCHRIST, GOMES de SOUZA, FONSECA CHAVES, ATTERTON, ROBERTS & KUSZNIR

A Failed Sea-Floor Spreading Centre, Santos Basin, Brazil. In: Rio Oil & Gas Expo and Conference 2006 Annals.

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2005

BRETAN & YIELDING

Using buoyancy pressure profiles to evaluate uncertainty in fault-seal calibration. In: Evaluating fault and cap rock seals: AAPG Hedberg Series No. 2, 151-162.

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DEE, FREEMAN, YIELDING, ROBERTS & BRETAN

Best practice in structural geological analysis. First Break, 23, 49-54.

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KUSZNIR, HUNSDALE, ROBERTS & iSIMM Team

Timing and Magnitude of Depth-dependent Lithosphere Stretching on the S. Lofoten and N. Vøring Continental Margins Offshore Mid-Norway: Implications for Subsidence and Hydrocarbon Maturation at Volcanic Rifted Margins. In: Petroleum Geology: North West Eurpole & Global Perspectives. Proc. 6th Petroleum Geology Conference, 767-783.

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2004

HEALY, YIELDING & KUSZNIR

Fracture prediction for the 1980 El Asnam, Algeria earthquake via elastic dislocation modelling. Tectonics, 23, TC6005.

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HEALY, KUSZNIR & YIELDING

An inverse method to derive fault slip and geometry from seismically observed vertical stratigraphic displacements using elastic dislocation theory. Marine and Petroleum Geology 21, 923-932.

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KUSZNIR, HUNSDALE & ROBERTS

Timing of depth-dependent lithosphere stretching on the South Lofoten rifted margin offshore mid-Norway: pre-breakup or post-breakup? Basin Research 16, 279-296.

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2003

BARNES, DEE & SANDERSON

Characterisation of fracture networks using data from boreholes: an example from the concealed Borrowdale Volcanic Group in west Cumbria, UK.

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BRETAN, YIELDING & JONES

Using calibrated shale gouge ratio to estimate hydrocarbon column heights. AAPG Bulletin, 87, 397-413.

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NICOL, WALSH, WATTERSON, NELL & BRETAN

The geometry, growth and linkage of faults within a polygonal system from South Australia. Geol. Soc. London Special Pub. 216, 245-261.

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2002

BAILEY, MANZOCCHI, WALSH, KEOGH, HODGETTS, RIPPON, NELL, FLINT & STRAND

The effect of faults on the 3D connectivity of reservoir bodies: a case study from the East Pennine Coalfield, UK. Petroleum Geoscience, 8, 263-277.

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HARRIS, YIELDING, LEVINE, MAXWELL, ROSE & NELL

Using Shale Gouge Ratio (SGR) to model faults as transmissibility barriers in reservoirs: an example from the Strathspey Field, North Sea. Petroleum Geoscience, 8, 167-176.

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WHITE, CHRISTIE, KUSZNIR, ROBERTS, DAVIES, HURST, LUNNON, PARKIN, ROBERTS, SMITH, SURENDRA & TYMMS

iSIMM pushes frontiers of marine seismic acquisition. First Break, 20, 782-786.

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YIELDING

Shale Gouge Ratio - calibration by geohistory. In: Hydrocarbon Seal Quantification (eds, Koestler & Hunsdale), NPF Special Pub, 11, 1-15.

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2001

BADLEY

Late Tertiary faulting, footwall uplift and topography in western Ireland. Geol Soc. Special Pub. 188, 201-207.

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BAXTER, BUDDIN, CORCORAN & SMITH

Structural modelling of the south Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: implications for the timing, magnitude and style of crustal extension. Geol. Soc. Special Pub. 188, 275-290.

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2000

WATTERSON, WALSH, NICOL, NELL & BRETAN

Geometry and origin of a polygonal fault system. J. Geol. Soc. London, 157, 151-162.

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1999

BERGER & ROBERTS

The Zeta Structure; a footwall degradation complex formed by gravity sliding on the western margin of the Tampen Spur, Northern North Sea. Pet. Geology Conference Series, 5, 107-116.

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MANZOCCHI, WALSH, NELL & YIELDING

Fault transmissibility multipliers for flow simulation models. Petroleum Geoscience 5, 53-63.

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ROBERTS & HOLDSWORTH

Linking onshore and offshore structures: Mesozoic extension in the Scottish highlands. J. Geol. Soc. London, 156, 1061-1064.

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ROBERTS, LENG-SIANG-GOH, HOOPER, DE-JONG & VELTMEYER

Quantitative analysis of structure and subsidence in the Nam Con Son Basin, offshore Vietnam: differential stretching ahead of a propagating ocean?

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YIELDING, ØVERLAND & BYBERG

Characterisation of fault zones for reservoir modeling: an example from the Gullfaks field, northern North Sea. AAPG Bulletin, 83, 925-951.

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YIELDING, ØVERLAND & BYBERG

Characterisation of fault zones in the Gullfaks field for reservoir modelling. Pet. Geology Conference Series, 5. 1177-1185.

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1998

FREEMAN, YIELDING, NEEDHAM & BADLEY

Fault seal prediction : the Gouge Ratio method. Geol. Soc. Special Pub. 127, 19-25.

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ROBERTS, KUSZNIR, YIELDING & STYLES

2D flexural backstripping of extensional basins: the need for a sideways glance. Petroleumn Geoscience, 4, 327-338.

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1997

FRISTAD, GROTH, YIELDING & FREEMAN

Quantitative Fault Seal Prediction - a case study from Oseberg Syd. Norwegian Petroleum Society Spec. Pub. 7, 107-124.

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HOLDSWORTH, BUTLER & ROBERTS

The recognition of reactivation during continental deformation. J. Geol. Soc. London, 154, 73-78.

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NEEDHAM & MORGAN

The East Irish Sea and adjacent basins - new faults or old?. J. Geol. Soc. London, 154, 145-150.

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ROBERTS, LUNDIN & KUSZNIR

Subsidence of the Vøring Basin and the influence of the Atlantic Continental Margin. J. Geol. Soc. London, 154, 551-557.

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YIELDING, FREEMAN & NEEDHAM

Quantitative Fault Seal Prediction. AAPG Bulletin, 81, 897-917.

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1996

BRETAN, NICOL, WALSH & WATTERSON

Origin of some conjugate or 'X'-shaped fault structures. Leading Edge, July 1996, 812-816.

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NEEDHAM, YIELDING & FOX

Fault population description and prediction using examples from the offshore U.K. J. Structural Geol. 18, 155-167.

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NEEDHAM, YIELDING & FREEMAN

Analysis of fault geometry and displacement patterns. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 99, 189-199.

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YIELDING, NEEDHAM & JONES

Sampling of fault populations using sub-surface data: a review. J. Structral Geol. 18, 135-146.

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1995

KUSZNIR, ROBERTS & MORLEY

Forward and Reverse Modelling of Rift Basin Formation. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 80, 33-56.

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ROBERTS, YIELDING, KUSZNIR, WALKER & DORN-LOPEZ

Quantitative analysis of the Triassic extension in the northern Viking Graben. J. Geol. Society London, 152, 15-26.

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1994

ROBERTS & YIELDING.

Continental extensional tectonics. In: Continental Deformation, edited by P. Hancock, 223-250, Pergamon Press, Oxford.

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WALSH, WATTERSON & YIELDING

Determination and interpretation of fault size populations: procedures and problems. In: North Sea Oil and Gas Reservoirs III, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht,141-155.

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1993

ROBERTS, YIELDING & BADLEY

Tectonic and bathymetric controls on stratigraphic sequences within evolving half-graben. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 71, 87-121.

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ROBERTS, YIELDING, KUSZNIR, WALKER & DORN-LOPEZ

Mesozoic extension in the North Sea: constraints from flexural backstripping, forward modelling and fault populations. Petroleum Geology Conference series 4, 1123-1136.

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1992

YIELDING, BADLEY & ROBERTS

The structural evolution of the Brent Province. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 61, 27-43.

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YIELDING & ROBERTS

Footwall uplift during normal faulting - implications for structural geometries in the North Sea. NPF Special Publication 1, 289-304.

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YIELDING, WALSH & WATTERSON

The prediction of small-scale faulting in reservoirs. First Break 10, 449-460.

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1991

ROBERTS & YIELDING

Deformation around basin-margin faults in the North Sea/mid-Norway rift. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 56, 61-78.

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WALSH, WATTERSON & YIELDING

The importance of small-scale faulting in regional extension. Nature 351, 391-393.

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WHITE & YIELDING

Calculating normal fault geometries at depth: theory and examples. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 56, 251-260.

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YIELDING, BADLEY & FREEMAN

Seismic reflections from normal faults in the northern North Sea. Geol. Soc. London Special Publication 56, 79-89.

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1990

BADLEY, FREEMAN, ROBERTS, THATCHER, WALSH, WATTERSON & YIELDING

Fault interpretation during seismic interpretation and reservoir evaluation. In: The interpretation of geology, geophysics, petrophysics and petroleum engineering in reservoir delination, description and management. Proceedings of 1st Archie Conference, Houston. AAPG, 224-241.

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FREEMAN, YIELDING & BADLEY

Fault correlation during seismic interpretation

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MARSDEN, YIELDING, ROBERTS & KUSZNIR

Application of a flexural cantilever simple-shear/pure-shear model of continental lithosphere extension to the formation of the northern North Sea basin.

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ROBERTS, BADLEY, PRICE & HUCK

The structural history of a transtensional basin: Inner Moray Firth, NE Scotland.

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ROBERTS, PRICE & OLSEN

Late Jurassic half-graben control on the siting and structure of hydrocarbon accumulations UK/Norwegian Central Graben.

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ROBERTS, YIELDING & BADLEY

A kinematic model for the orthogonal opening of the late Jurassic North Sea rift system, Denmark-Mid Norway.

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YIELDING

Footwall uplift associated with Late Jurassic normal faulting in the northern North Sea.

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1989

BADLEY, PRICE & BACKSHALL

Inversion, reactivated faults and related structures: seismic examples from the southern North Sea.

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ROBERTS

Fold and thrust structures in the Kintradwell 'Boulder Beds', Moray Firth.

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ROBERTS, PRICE & BADLEY.

Discussion on Triassic sediments of the Inner Moray Firth, Scotland: early rift deposits.

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1988

BADLEY, PRICE, RAMBECH-DAHL & AGDESTEIN

The structural evolution of the northern Viking Graben and its bearing upon extensional modes of basin formation

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