The Lower Palaeozoic now fully cored and logged on Bornholm, Denmark

Abstract

A 558 m long, complete section of the Lower Palaeozoic succession preserved onshore southern Bornholm has been compiled from fi ve fully cored scientifi c wells, carried out between 2005 and 2012. Th e scientifi c programme included coring and geophysical logging of the fi ve scientifi c wells that yielded a total of c. 750 m of partially overlapping cores as well as re-logging of water wells and acquisition of shallow seismic data. Th e last well drilled, the Sommerodde-1, cored the youngest preserved Silurian strata on Bornholm including strata not exposed in outcrops. Th e well penetrated 168.1 m of Silurian shales, 42.7 m of Upper Ordovician shales and 27.9 m of Alum Shale before it terminated at a depth of 250.3 m in the Lower Cambrian Norretorp Member of the Læså Formation. Th e Sommerodde-1 well documents that the Lower Silurian Cyrtograptus shale is at least 91.7 m thick and that the Rastrites shale is 76.4 m thick. Th e complete Lower Cambrian succession has previously been covered by the 316.0 m deep Borggård-1 well that terminated in basement rocks (Nielsen et al. 2006).