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Spiculitic sandstone layers can also serve as use-
ful horizons for correlation and help to highlight
significant, intra-Jurassic erosive truncation of
otherwise massive shoreface sandstones.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This joint Total E&P Norge - Total E&P UK study
reflects the work of a team of geologists and
geophysicists working over a period of several
years on a database that includes more than 1000
wells. The authors thank co-venturers in the UK
Elgin-Franklin project (Eni, BG International,
Ruhrgas, Esso, Chevron, Dyas and Oranje-Nassau)
for permission to publish studies of the Elgin-
Franklin correlation update completed in 2002.
Parts of the current study were first presented at
the AAPG annual meeting in Houston of the same
year. We also thank partners in Norwegian licences
PL018, PL044 and PL146 for permission to pub-
lish data from these areas: Statoil in PL146/333
and Statoil, ConocoPhillips, Eni Norge and Petoro
in PL018/044. Many Total E & P geoscientists
provided support to this study, notably: J. Suiter,
F. Walgenwitz, C. Gout, A. Jourdan, M. Dougherty,
B. Magnier, D. Michoux, P. Stinson, A. Braghiroli
and C. Mathieu. We thank all concerned for their
contributions. We would also like to thank
T. McKie, H.D. Johnson and R. Ravnås for reviewing
and suggesting improvements to this paper.

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