From Isolated Pinnacles to Polygonal Networks – 3D Seismic Sheds New Light on Upper Palaeozoic Carbonate Buildups, Barents Sea

P036 FROM ISOLATED PINNACLES TO POLYGONAL NETWORKS – 3D SEISMIC SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON UPPER PALAEOZOIC CARBONATE BUILDUPS BARENTS SEA Introduction 1 GEIR ELVEBAKK 1 DAVID W. HUNT 1 LARS STEMMERIK 2 LUPPO W. KUILMAN 1 and KAI HOGSTAD 1 1 Norsk Hydro Produksjon ASA Kanebogveien N-9480 Harstad Norway Carbonate buildups are a common feature of many ancient carbonate platforms. Our understanding of buildup distribution is however hampered by the fact that maps of buildups rarely show evidence of widespread spatial organisation. Thick (<600 m) vertically stacked high-relief Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian carbonate buildups are well known from Arctic Norway Greenland