The faulted zone of North Hinder (southern North Sea)

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High-resolution reflection seismic investigations carried out in the past decade by the Renard Centre of Marine Geology (State University of Ghent) have shed some new light on the tectonic setting of the offshore extension of the London-Brabant Massif.A classical view is that this Palaeozoic basement high behaved throughout post-Hercynian times as a rigid unit, unaffected by the major Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformation phases which left their scars along, its periphery.Some doubts may however be cast on this model, particularly in view of the observation of a sequence of troughs and faults in the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic cover of the Brabant Massif. These deformations can be subdivided into three main groups: the North Hinder Structures, the Gravelines Structure and the Goote-Raan Structures.The North Hinder Structures consist of a N50°E-trending alignment of synclinal troughs in the Eocene cover sediments (mainly Ypresian clays). These deformations seem to drape block-fault structur

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