f Areal variation of maximum temperatures and times of cooling on the Western Barents Shelf

Maximum temperatures have been obtained at about 25 locations on the Barents Shelf using sterare and hopane isomerisation at C-20 and C-22, vitrinite reflectance and Apatite Fission Track Analysis (AFTA). Isomerisation modelling employs tested and validated distributed kinetic models (Ritter et al., 1993a, in press), vitrinite reflectance temperaturen are derived from a slightly modified version of the model of Sweeney and Burnham (1990) and AFTA data have been determined using the method described by Greeen et al. (1989).