Salt movements in the Northeast German Basin and its relation to major post-Permian tectonic phases—results from 3D structural modelling, backstripping and reflection seismic data

Scheck, M.; Bayer, U.; Lewerenz, Björn

doi:10.1016/s0040-1951(02)00650-9

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“…Similar observations have been documented by Scheck et al (2003a, b) in the NE German Basin where strain localization along the SW margin (Gardelegen fault) may have propagated into the salt cover of the basin, so that the resulting folding was balanced by viscous salt flow into the anticlines.…”

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“…3D visualization of the results of analogue modelling have helped to elucidate the complex geometry of salt diapirs (Guglielmo et al, 1999), demonstrating changes of sedimentation, deformation, and underlying salt thickness through time. A full 3D numerical approach was applied by Scheck et al (2003a, b) for the NE German Basin, considering salt flow as a consequence of spatially changing overburden, isostatic response and sediment compaction. Ismail-Zadeh et al (2004) investigated the evolution of salt structures both forwards and backwards in time by means of 3D numerical finite-element models.…”

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3D reconstruction of salt movements within the deepest post-Permian structure of the Central European Basin System - the Glueckstadt Graben

Maystrenko

Bayer

Scheck‐Wenderoth

2006

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

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The Glueckstadt Graben is prominent structure of the Central European Basin System, where the sedimentary patterns are extensively affected by Permian salt movements. The relations of the sedimentary patterns to salt structures have been analyzed through present-day distributions of sediments. In addition, a three-dimensional backward modelling approach has been applied to determine the original salt distribution in response to the unloading due to sequential backstripping of the Cretaceous when the area of the Glueckstadt Graben was tectonically silent. Therefore, our study supports the concept of tectonically induced salt movements which can be interrupted during the absence of tectonic forces. Salt movements were reactivated in the marginal troughs by compressional forces 4 during the latest Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic. Paleogene-Neogene salt withdrawal led to the growth of N-S oriented salt structures mainly at the margins of the basin. This phase of salt tectonics correlates temporally with almost W-E extension. This indicates a renewed change in tectonic regime after Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic compression.

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3D reconstruction of salt movements within the deepest post-Permian structure of the Central European Basin System - the Glueckstadt Graben

Maystrenko

Bayer

Scheck‐Wenderoth

2006

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

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“…1;Tröger and Kurze 1980;Ziegler 1987). All the (sub)basins have experienced a complex Mesozoic history due to several changes in the overall tectonic stress field and superimposed salt tectonics (Ziegler 1990;Baldschuhn et al 1991;Kockel 1996;Scheck and Bayer 1999;Scheck et al 2003). During the Late Cretaceous, the entire region was affected by regional compression leading to crustal shortening and local uplift of blocks such as Calvörde Block, Flechtingen High and the Harz Mountains, and the inverse reactivation of numerous former extensional faults (Baldschuhn et al 1985;Kossow and Krawczyk 2002;Kockel 2003).…”

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“…In the Mesozoic, relatively continuous and uniform subsidence persisted across the entire basin, although variations of this overall trend are frequent and become manifest in regional swells and troughs, especially in the Late Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous, and are further complicated by the rise of salt pillows and diapirs since latest Triassic time (Ziegler 1990;Scheck and Bayer 1999;Kossow and Krawczyk 2002;Scheck et al 2003).…”

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Provenance of Cretaceous clastics in the Subhercynian Basin: constraints to exhumation of the Harz Mountains and timing of inversion tectonics in Central Europe

Eynatten¹,

Voigt

Meier

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Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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The Harz Mountains and the adjacent Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin figure as the most prominent surface representative for Late Cretaceous inversion structures in Central Europe. Facies, depositional architecture and provenance of the basin fill reflect mechanisms and timing of the exhumation of the Harz. From Hauterivian to Early Santonian there is no evidence for detrital input from the nearby Harz area. Sediments are mature quartzarenites derived from Paleozoic basement rocks and/ or recycled Permian to Mesozoic sedimentary rocks. This situation changed drastically in Middle to Late Santonian when freshly exhumed and eroded Mesozoic sedimentary cover rocks of the Harz were delivered into the basin. Feldspar and lithoclasts reflect erosion of Triassic and, in places, Jurassic to Turonian strata. Apatite and garnet in heavy mineral spectra are derived from largely unweathered Lower Triassic Buntsandstein as indicated by apatite and garnet chemistry. In Early Campanian, Paleozoic lithoclasts indicate erosion cutting down into the basement of the Harz. Simultaneous strong decrease of feldspar, garnet and apatite suggest an almost complete removal of the 2-3 km thick Mesozoic cover of the Harz within only 2-4 Myr. This translates into an exhumation rate of approximately 1 mm/a consistent with apatite fission track data from granitoid rocks of the Harz Mountains.

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“…depocentres surrounding the salt domes and diapirs that were filled by the Jurassic sediments while the salt below was moving into the domes (e.g. Scheck et al 2003). Similar present-day thickness distributions, related to nondeposition above active salt structures and maximum sediment accumulation around them, are…”

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Deep 3D thermal modelling for the city of Berlin (Germany)

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This study predicts the subsurface temperature distribution of Germany's capital Berlin. For this purpose, a data-based lithosphere-scale 3D structural model is developed incorporating 21 individual geological units. This model shows a horizontal grid resolution of (500 x 500) m and provides the geometric base for two different approaches of 3D thermal simulations, (i) calculations of the steady-state purely conductive thermal field and ( Groundwater flow results in subsurface cooling the extent of which is strongly controlled by the geometry and the distribution of the Tertiary Rupelian Clay. The cooling effect is strongest where this clay-rich aquitard is thinnest or missing thus facilitating deep reaching forced convective flow.The differences between the purely conductive and coupled models highlight the need for investigations of the complex interrelation of flow-and thermal fields to properly predict temperatures in sedimentary systems.

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Salt movements in the Northeast German Basin and its relation to major post-Permian tectonic phases—results from 3D structural modelling, backstripping and reflection seismic data

Cited by 64 publications

References 23 publications

3D reconstruction of salt movements within the deepest post-Permian structure of the Central European Basin System - the Glueckstadt Graben

3D reconstruction of salt movements within the deepest post-Permian structure of the Central European Basin System - the Glueckstadt Graben

Provenance of Cretaceous clastics in the Subhercynian Basin: constraints to exhumation of the Harz Mountains and timing of inversion tectonics in Central Europe

Deep 3D thermal modelling for the city of Berlin (Germany)

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