High-resolution seismic analysis of the coastal Mecklenburg Bay (North German Basin): the pre-Alpine evolution

Zöllner, H.; Reicherter, Klaus; Schikowsky, P.

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“…Krzywiec, ; Maystrenko et al., ). On the West Schleswig Block and the Northern East Holstein‐Mecklenburg Block, several low‐amplitude salt pillows evolved, as can be inferred from slight thickness variations of the Upper Triassic (Hansen et al., , ; Hübscher, Hansen, Trinanes, Lykke‐Andersen, & Gajewski, ; Kockel et al., ; Zöllner, Reicherter, & Schikowsky, ).…”

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The timing of salt structure growth in the Southern Permian Basin (Central Europe) and implications for basin dynamics

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In this paper, a literature‐based compilation of the timing and history of salt tectonics in the Southern Permian Basin (Central Europe) is presented. The tectono‐stratigraphic evolution of the Southern Permian Basin is influenced by salt movement and the structural development of various types of salt structures. The compilation presented here was used to characterize the following syndepositional growth stages of the salt structures: (a) “phase of initiation”; (b) phase of fastest growth (“main activity”); and (c) phase of burial’. We have also mapped the spatial pattern of potential mechanisms that triggered the initiation of salt structures over the area studied and summarized them for distinct regions (sub‐basins, platforms, etc.). The data base compiled and the set of maps produced from it provide a detailed overview of the spatial and temporal distribution of salt tectonic activity enabling the correlation of tectonic phases between specific regions of the entire Southern Permian Basin. Accordingly, salt movements were initiated in deeply subsided graben structures and fault zones during the Early and Middle Triassic. In these areas, salt structures reached their phase of main activity already during the Late Triassic or the Jurassic and were mostly buried during the Early Cretaceous. Salt structures in less subsided sub‐basins and platform regions of the Southern Permian Basin mostly started to grow during the Late Triassic. The subsequent phase of main activity of these salt structures took place from the Late Cretaceous to the Cenozoic. The analysis of the trigger mechanisms revealed that most salt structures were initiated by large‐offset normal faults in the sub‐salt basement in the large graben structures and minor normal faulting associated with thin‐skinned extension in the less subsided basin parts.

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The timing of salt structure growth in the Southern Permian Basin (Central Europe) and implications for basin dynamics

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“…In contrast to the salt pillows which emerged above Triassic fault systems in the Bay of Kiel, the Cenozoic salt movement activity is most pronounced in the Bay of Mecklenburg (Hübscher et al, 2010). Similar study focusing on the pre-Alpine evolution have been carried out in the Bay of Mecklenburg by Zöllner et al (2008), based on a very dense reflection seismic profile grid. Tertiary to recent halokinetics and faulting in the supraZechstein succession in the southwest Baltic Sea are due to the Neogene to recent NW-SE directed extension, the present-day orientation (Figs.…”

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Late Cretaceous to recent tectonic evolution of the North German Basin and the transition zone to the Baltic Shield/southwest Baltic Sea

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Hübscher

2017

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“…Salt structures in the northeastern part of the NGB have been widely studied with respect to their distribution, geometry, and timing. Salt movement was analyzed as a function of the regional tectonic framework in the context of early stage salt movement within a continental basin (Hübscher et al, 2010;Kossow et al, 2000;Kossow & Krawczyk, 2002;Scheck et al, 2003;Warsitzka et al, 2018;Zöllner et al, 2008). However, a direct link between salt structure distribution and basement faults was not found.…”

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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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High-resolution seismic analysis of the coastal Mecklenburg Bay (North German Basin): the pre-Alpine evolution

Abstract: The pre-Alpine structural and geological evo-

Cited by 10 publications

References 19 publications

The timing of salt structure growth in the Southern Permian Basin (Central Europe) and implications for basin dynamics

The timing of salt structure growth in the Southern Permian Basin (Central Europe) and implications for basin dynamics

Late Cretaceous to recent tectonic evolution of the North German Basin and the transition zone to the Baltic Shield/southwest Baltic Sea

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

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