Dynamics of Complex Intracontinental Basins

Littke, Ralf; Bayer, U.; Gajewski, D.; Nelskamp, S.

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“…The NGB is part of the Southern Permian Basin, which extends from Britain over central Europe to Poland (e.g., Maystrenko et al, 2008) (inset of Figure 1). The basin is an intracontinental basin with a complex structural development from the Carboniferous to present.…”

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“…Salt structures within continental basins frequently form as a result of plate and intraplate tectonic deformation, often in the vicinity of prominent basement faults due to extension or shortening (Callot et al, 2012;Coleman et al, 2017;Krzywiec et al, 2019;Pichel et al, 2019;Scheck-Wenderoth et al, 2008;Vejbaek, 1997;Warren, 2008;Warsitzka et al, 2018). In the presence of a salt layer that effectively decouples the overburden from the underlying basement faulting, thin-skinned deformation can alternatively initiate the development of salt structures.…”

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“…In the presence of a salt layer that effectively decouples the overburden from the underlying basement faulting, thin-skinned deformation can alternatively initiate the development of salt structures. Differential sediment load is another important reason for the formation of salt structures (e.g., Blanc et al, 2003;Callot et al, 2012;Davis & Engelder, 1985;Hudec & Jackson, 2007;Jackson & Hudec, 2017;Jaritz, 1973;Kockel, 1999;Kukla et al, 2008;Stewart, 2007;Trusheim, 1960;Vendeville & Jackson, 1992;Warsitzka et al, 2018). Salt tectonics at continental margins has been intensively studied because of the availability of high-quality continuous seismic images from the basement up to the seafloor.…”

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“…Adjacent to the TTZ, the Permian-Mesozoic Polish Basin developed contemporaneously to the NGB. Both are parts of the Southern Permian Basin, which is included in the Central European Basin System, a series of related intracontinental basins spreading from Britain to the Polish mainland (Maystrenko et al, 2008;Pharaoh et al, 2010). Within the central part of the NGB, the prominent Mesozoic-Cenozoic Glückstadt Graben marks the western border of the study area (Figure 1).…”

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Structural Evolution at the Northeast North German Basin Margin: From Initial Triassic Salt Movement to Late Cretaceous‐Cenozoic Remobilization

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In this study, we investigate the regional tectonic impact on salt movement at the northeastern margin of the intracontinental North German Basin. We discuss the evolution of salt pillows in the Bay of Mecklenburg in the light of thick‐ and thin‐skinned tectonics, including gravity gliding, and differential loading using seismic imaging. Stratigraphic and structural interpretation of a 170 km long, multichannel seismic line, extending from the Bay of Mecklenburg to northeast of Rügen Island, incorporates well information of nearby onshore wells. This new high‐resolution seismic line completely images the stratigraphic and tectonic pattern of the subsurface, from the base of the Zechstein to the seafloor. Our analysis reveals that subsidence during Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous at the northeastern basin margin was associated with transtensional dextral strike slip movement within the Trans‐European Suture Zone. We reinterpret the Werre and Prerow Fault Zones west of Rügen Island as an inverted, thin‐skinned normal fault system associated with the formation of the Western Pomeranian Fault System. Salt movement in the Bay of Mecklenburg was initiated in the Late Triassic and lasted until the Early Jurassic. A second phase of salt pillow growth occurred during the Coniacian until Cenozoic and correlates with compression‐related regional basin inversion due to the onset of the Africa‐Iberia‐Europe convergence. Thin‐skinned extensional initialization of salt pillow growth and compressional salt remobilization explains salt pillow evolution in the Bay of Mecklenburg. Additionally, we discuss an impact of gravity gliding on salt pillow evolution induced by basin margin tilt.

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Structural Evolution at the Northeast North German Basin Margin: From Initial Triassic Salt Movement to Late Cretaceous‐Cenozoic Remobilization

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“…The Harz Mountains form the most-northern outcrop of the Rhenohercynian Belt; the youngest sediments of the Harz Mountains are Carboniferous flysch and molasse that were sourced by the Variscan Orogeny (Engel et al 1983). Subsequently, the whole European Permian Basin, which includes the Harz Mountains and the Subhercynian Basin, was buried by a thick cover of Latest Paleozoic to Mesozoic strata, until the Late Cretaceous, when inversion of the basin began (Littke et al 2008). .…”

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Restoration of the Cretaceous uplift of the Harz Mountains, North Germany: evidence for the geometry of a thick-skinned thrust

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Krawczyk

2017

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Reverse movement on the Harz Northern Boundary Fault was responsible for the Late Cretaceous uplift of the Harz Mountains in northern Germany. Using the known geometry of the surface position and dip of the fault, and a published cross section of the Base Permian horizon, we show that it is possible to predict the probable shape of the fault at depth, down to a detachment level. We use the 'inclined-shear' method with constant heave and argue that a shear angle of 30° was most likely. In this case, the detachment level is at a depth of ca. 25 km. Kinematic restoration of the Harz Mountains using this fault geometry does not produce a flat horizon, rather it results in a ca. 4 km depression. Airy-Heiskanen isostatic equilibrium adjustment of the Harz Mountains restores the Base Permian horizon to the horizontal, as well as raising the Moho to a depth of 32 km, a typical value for northern Germany. Restoration also causes a rotation of tectonic fabrics within the Harz Mountains of about 11° clockwise. We show that this model geometry is very good fit to the interpreted DEKORP BASIN 9601 deep seismic profile.

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Why intracontinental basins subside longer: 3‐D feedback effects of lithospheric cooling and sedimentation on the flexural strength of the lithosphere

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Scheck‐Wenderoth

2016

JGR Solid Earth

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The aim of this study is to reevaluate the character and evolution of the large‐scale subsidence of intracontinental basins using 3‐D thermomechanical numerical simulations accounting for the coupling between sedimentation, rheology‐dependent lithospheric flexure, and thermal contraction by lithospheric cooling. The flexural rigidity of the lithospheric plate is controlled by elastic‐brittle‐plastic rheology, enabling the computation of thermal and mechanical feedback processes occurring during basin subsidence. Numerical results show that depending on the sediment loading history, a rheological stratified lithosphere can subside over geological time scales without imposition of ad hoc geometric and kinematic initial conditions. Three‐dimensional feedback effects of sedimentation on the thermomechanical structure of the plate result in a weakened lower crust mechanically decoupled from the underlying mantle and therefore easily reactivated even under low background stresses. Our results explain the first‐order characteristics of the subsidence in intracontinental basins and reconcile basic observations of their deformation history.

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Dynamics of Complex Intracontinental Basins

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Structural Evolution at the Northeast North German Basin Margin: From Initial Triassic Salt Movement to Late Cretaceous‐Cenozoic Remobilization

Structural Evolution at the Northeast North German Basin Margin: From Initial Triassic Salt Movement to Late Cretaceous‐Cenozoic Remobilization

Restoration of the Cretaceous uplift of the Harz Mountains, North Germany: evidence for the geometry of a thick-skinned thrust

Why intracontinental basins subside longer: 3‐D feedback effects of lithospheric cooling and sedimentation on the flexural strength of the lithosphere

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