Tertiary Sequence Stratigraphy at the Southern Border of the North Sea Basin in Belgium

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noël Vandenberghe ◽  
Pieter Laga ◽  
Etienne Steurbaut ◽  
Jan Hardenbol ◽  
Peter R. Vail
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
North Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Southern Border

scholarly journals Stratigraphie architecture of the Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic along the southern border of the North Sea Basin in Belgium

2004 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
N. Vandenberghe ◽  
S. Van Simaeys ◽  
E. Steurbaut ◽  
J.W.M. Jagt ◽  
P. J. Felder
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
The North ◽  
Tectonic Events ◽  
Geological Information ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Southern Border

AbstractThe Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic sedimentary record in the Campine Basin along the southern border of the North Sea Basin is analysed in terms of sequence stratigraphy. All available biostratigraphic, and in some cases, magnetostratigraphic data are used to constrain the sequence chronostratigraphy. The relative geographic extent of the strata is used as an indication of the relative sea level. Tectonic and eustatic components could be distinguished in several cases using regional geological information. Generally, sequences consist of transgressive and highstand systems tracts only and have flat, abrasion-type lower boundaries. Lowstand deposits are only identified as infill of erosional space, which generally implies marked tectonic uplift. Several eustatic and tectonic events can be correlated with similar events known elsewhere in the North Sea Basin. The time intervals spanned by the different sequences vary considerably, pointing out different control mechanisms.

scholarly journals Stratigraphic architecture of the Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic along the southern border of the North Sea Basin in Belgium

2004 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Vandenberghe ◽  
S. Van Simaeys ◽  
E. Steurbaut ◽  
J.W.M. Jagt ◽  
P.J. Felder
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
The North ◽  
Tectonic Events ◽  
Stratigraphic Architecture ◽  
Geological Information ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Southern Border

AbstractThe Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic sedimentary record in the Campine Basin along the southern border of the North Sea Basin is analysed in terms of sequence stratigraphy. All available biostratigraphic, and in some cases, magnetostratigraphic data are used to constrain the sequence chronostratigraphy. The relative geographic extent of the strata is used as an indication of the relative sea level. Tectonic and eustatic components could be distinguished in several cases using regional geological information. Generally, sequences consist of transgressive and highstand systems tracts only and have flat, abrasion-type lower boundaries. Lowstand deposits are only identified as infill of erosional space, which generally implies marked tectonic uplift. Several eustatic and tectonic events can be correlated with similar events known elsewhere in the North Sea Basin. The time intervals spanned by the different sequences vary considerably, pointing out different control mechanisms.

scholarly journals The Miocene–Pliocene hiatus in the southern North Sea Basin (northern Belgium) revealed by dinoflagellate cysts

2010 ◽  
Vol 147 (5) ◽  
pp. 760-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN LOUWYE ◽  
STIJN DE SCHEPPER
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Dinoflagellate Cysts ◽  
Depositional History ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
Accommodation Space ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
First Time

AbstractA palynological analysis with marine palynomorphs (dinoflagellate cysts, acritarchs, green algae) and terrestrial palynomorphs (pollen and spores) of the Kasterlee and Poederlee formations provides new insights in the depositional history at the southern border of the North Sea basin (northern Belgium) around the Miocene–Pliocene transition. Dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy constrains the age of the Kasterlee Formation in the Oud-Turnhout borehole between 7.5 and 5.32 Ma. The upper boundary of the formation can be correlated with sequence boundary Me2 at 5.73 Ma of Hardenbol and co-workers, which further constrains its age to the time interval 7.5–5.73 Ma. The palynomorph assemblages reflect a near-coast depositional environment. Where present, the Kasterlee Formation thus terminates the Miocene series in northern Belgium. The overall shallow nature of the latest Miocene deposits is related to a sea-level lowering caused by the onset of globally cooling conditions. For the first time, palynology is applied to estimate the age of the Poederlee Formation, suggesting it was deposited during the Mid-Pliocene warm period. Dinoflagellate cysts and sequence stratigraphy together constrain the age of the unit between 3.21 and 2.76 Ma, and possibly even between 3.21 and 3.15 Ma. The Poederlee Formation was deposited in neritic environments, which shoaled in the upper part of the unit as a consequence of the decreasing availability of accommodation space. We demonstrate that the magnitude of the hiatus between the Miocene and Pliocene series varies strongly at the southern boundary of the North Sea Basin, and lasts in the Antwerp area c. 3.2 million years and c. 2.52 million years in the Campine area.

Periodical Events in the North Sea Basin

1945 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 237-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. F. Umbgrove
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zone ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Rhine Graben ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Southern Border

The North Sea Basin is enclosed on its western and eastern sides by two axes of elevation, viz. the Pennines (a5 of Text-fig. 7) and the axis of Erkelenz (a3). The fault-zone of the Limburg coal district broadens towards the north-west into the graben of the central Netherlands. In the opposite direction it is connected with the Rhine-graben. The southern border of the North Sea Basin is formed by the Brabant Massif. It dates from at least pre-Carboniferous times, but its influence as a geanticlinal ridge of elevation was manifest in many Mesozoic and Cenozoic epochs. In a voluminous memoir Stevens (6) pointed out that the present morphology of Belgium—e.g. the pattern of the rivers—still reveals the influence of this important element.

scholarly journals WAVE CLIMATE STUDY In THE REGION OF THE EAST FRISIAN ISLANDS AND COAST

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Hanz Dieter Niemeyer
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Wave Climate ◽  
Tidal Range ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Tidal Inlets ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Climate Study

The East Frisian Islands and Coast - located at the southern border of the North-Sea - are significantly characterized by a chain of off-shore islands which are separated from the mainland by wide spread tidal flats (FIG.1). Between the islands there are small and deep tidal inlets with strong currents, through which the tidal volume covering the flats is streaming in and out, with a tidal range of about 2,5 m.

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