Evolution of a salt-related listric growth fault near the d-1 well, block 5605, danish north sea: displacement history and salt kinematics

The ICE hypothesis stands: How the dogma of late Cenozoic tectonic uplift can no longer be sustained in the light of data and physical laws

“…B: In the North Sea there is overwhelming evidence for differential subsidence across Mesozoic faults, reactivated salt structures and active inversion zones during the Cenozoic (Clausen and Korstgård, 1993;Danielsen et al, 1997;Vejbaek et al, 2007;Korstgård et al, 1993;Petersen et al, 1992;Clausen and Huuse, 1999;Huuse, 1999;Ziegler, 1990;Vejbaek and Andersen, 2002;Rank-Friend and Elders, 2004 to mention a few). We question the dating of the differential subsidence across the major graben bounding faults (Rasmussen, 2004a) since the reconstruction did not consider differential compaction of sediments, and the maps of Rasmussen (2009) do in fact indicate much later activity.…”

Oligocene climate changes controlling forced regression in the eastern North Sea

“…However, the NorwegianeDanish Basin is characterized by the presence of Zechstein evaporites generating a large number of salt structures (pillows, walls and diapirs), which has deformed the Cenozoic succession. Furthermore, a major Cenozoic salt-related fault complex, striking EeW, is located just south of the high-angle clinoforms complex (Petersen et al, 1992;Sørensen, 1998).…”

Salt tectonics in the North Sea Basin: a structural style template for seismic interpreters

“…Various extensional fault systems, that detach on the Zechstein salt, have been described in the North Sea (Petersen et al 1992;Gatliff et al 1994;Bishop et al 1995;Stewart 1996;Huuse 1999). The most extensive are peripheral fault systems hundreds of kilometres in length around the west margins of the southern and central North Sea (Fig.…”