Catalina Sandstone Member

In the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian-Albian) Hibernia to Avalon/Ben Nevis formations, which contain the main reservoir levels of the Hibernia Field (the 200 m thick Hibernia Sandstone and the 150 m thick Catalina Member of the Whiterose Formation, as well as the up to 800 m thick Avalon/Ben Nevis Sandstone), the shift to elastic-dominated marginal-marine and marine sedimentation occurred, as rifting continued in the Grand Banks region. Most of the detrital material was derived from elevated areas to the west (Bonavista Platform Figs 1 and 3) and southwest (Avalon Uplift Jansa Wade, 1975) of the Jeanne d Arc basin, but also from uplifted and... 

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