f Geological Modelling in the Porcupine Basin - an Integrated Approach

The Porcupine Basin contains up to 10 km of Late Palaeozoic-Cenozoic sedimentary sediments and lies in deep water off the west coast of Ireland. It evolved as part of an assemblage of coeval extensional rift basins in response to the disintegration of the Pangean supercontinent and the subsequent development of the North Atlantic Ocean. Episodes of syn-rift development were followed by periods of thermal subsidence.