Upper Carboniferous Deep Water Sediments, Western Ireland: Analogues for Passive Margin Turbidite Plays

The Upper Carboniferous Shannon Basin of western Ireland is an extensional basin with a 930 m thick, sandstone-bearing, deep water succession comparable to several passive margin basins around the world. A range of possible play types can be illustrated, deposited either in a sand-rich basin floor setting, or in a more mud-rich slopebasin floor transitional setting.