Slide block (?) of Jurassic sandstone and submarine channels in the basal Upper Cretaceous of the Viking Graben: Norwegian North Sea

Latest Caledonian to Present tectonomorphological development of southern Norway

“…By the latest Jurassic, subsidence had not yet reached its maximum, and the relief in the North Sea was still moderate. The topography was dominated by up-rotated crests of fault blocks with their long axes oriented parallel to the graben axis Kjennerud et al, 2001), was enhanced by elastic response to faulting on the one hand (Roberts and Yielding, 1991;Yielding and Roberts, 1992), and smoothed by gravitational destabilization and erosion and infilling of accommodation space on the other (Alhilali and Damuth, 1987;Gabrielsen et al, 2001). Maturation study of organic material from late Jurassic sediments found along Jurassic fault lines between islands of the archipelago of western Norway indicate that these sediments have not been buried below a few hundred meters since their deposition (Fossen et al, 1997), defining an approximate position for the maximum flexure of the Jurassic and younger uplift profile.…”

Evolution and strike variability of early post-rift deep-marine depositional systems: Lower to Mid-Cretaceous, North Viking Graben, Norwegian North Sea

“…Thickness variations associated with fault-related topography, wedge-shaped sedimentary bodies and the deposition of coarse clastics in the post-rift interval have often been interpreted to be associated with Cretaceous tectonism elsewhere in the northern North Sea (Badley et al, 1984;Alhilali and Damuth, 1987;Skibeli et al, 1995;Nøttvedt et al, 1995;Hesthammer and Fossen, 1999;Bugge et al, 2001;Gabrielsen et al, 2001;Kyrkjebø et al, 2004). However, in and around the North Viking Graben these features do not accompany fault movement but are rather associated with the passive infilling of the syn-rift topography (Faerseth et al, 1995;Zachariah et al, 2009).…”

Reconstructing basin evolution from sedimentary thickness; the importance of palaeobathymetric control, with reference to the North Sea

“…T h e part of the fault scarp that was emergent was subject to erosion, but modification of submerged scarps would have been largely confined to slope failure and submarine canyon-cutting (eg. Alhilali & Damuth 1987). T h e thick sediments in the hanging wall of the fault continued to compact and the fault plane continued to grow up through the overlying sediments subsequent to their deposition.…”

“…A second approach stems from the observation that many of the large faults in the Aorth Sea show a similar dip geometry within the hanging wall (Fig. Alhilali & Damuth 1987). Deep in the section the bedding in the hang:.ng wall is rotated and dips towards the fault plane, as might be expected in a listric extensional fault or a planar extcnsional fault (Barr 1987), in an active rift.…”