Extent
The exact extent of the Orcadian Basin is uncertain due to later tectonic effects and burial beneath younger sediments, but it is known to have reached from the south coast of the Moray Firth to the Shetland Islands in the north and from Strathy on the Caithness coast in the west, to the Outer Moray Firth and East Shetland Platform in the east, where it is proven by hydrocarbon exploration wells. Continental sediments of the same age are also known from the Clair oilfield west of the Shetland Islands and have been tentatively identified in the West Orkney Basin. The connection of the Orcadian Basin to the Devonian basins of western Norway and eastern Greenland is not known in any detail. To the south the basin may continue almost as far south as the Highland Boundary Fault, including the half-grabens at Turriff and Rhynie.
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