Subsidence analysis and modelling of the Roer Valley Graben (SE Netherlands)

Zijerveld, Leo; Stephenson, R.A.; Cloetingh, S.A.P.L.; Duin, Ed; Berg, M.W. van den

doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-89912-5.50013-2

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“…Yet, the stress level apparently increased between 3 and 2.5 Ma (Dèzes et al, 2004). This is compatible with a subsidence acceleration of the Roer Valley Graben around 2.5 Ma (Zijerveld et al, 1992;Geluk et al, 1994;Michon et al, 2003). Moreover, the paleo-Aare river that had flowed from 4.2 Ma onward westwards along the thrust front of the Jura Mountains into the Bresse Graben (Sundgau gravels) and drained into the Mediterranean Sea, was deflected around 2.9 Ma into the Upper Rhine Graben, thus draining into the North Sea (Müller et al, 2002;Giamboni et al, 2004).…”

Section: The Rhine Graben Systemsupporting

confidence: 64%

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

Cloetingh¹,

Ziegler²,

Bogaard³

et al. 2007

Global and Planetary Change

142

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TOPO-EUROPE addresses the 4-D topographic evolution of the orogens and intra-plate regions of Europe through a multidisciplinary approach linking geology, geophysics, geodesy and geotechnology. TOPO-EUROPE integrates monitoring, imaging, reconstruction and modelling of the interplay between processes controlling continental topography and related natural hazards. Until now, research on neotectonics and related topography development of orogens and intra-plate regions has received little attention. TOPO-EUROPE initiates a number of novel studies on the quantification of rates of vertical motions, related tectonically controlled river evolution and land subsidence in carefully selected natural laboratories in Europe. From orogen through platform to continental margin, these natural laboratories include the Alps/Carpathians-Pannonian Basin System, the West and Central European Platform, the Apennines-Aegean-Anatolian region, the Iberian Peninsula, the Scandinavian Continental Margin, the East-European Platform, and the Caucasus-Levant area. TOPO-EUROPE integrates European research facilities and know-how essential to advance the understanding of the role of topography in Environmental Earth System Dynamics. The principal objective of the network is twofold. Namely, to integrate national research programs into a common European network and, furthermore, to integrate activities among TOPO-EUROPE institutes and participants. Key objectives are to provide an interdisciplinary forum to share knowledge and information in the field of the neotectonic and topographic evolution of Europe, to

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Section: The Rhine Graben Systemsupporting

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TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

Cloetingh¹,

Ziegler²,

Bogaard³

et al. 2007

Global and Planetary Change

142

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“…10d;Ahorner 1975;Giglia et al 1996;Hinzen 2003). Pliocene and Quaternary extensional and transtensional subsidence of the Roer Valley and Upper Rhine grabens, respectively, is documented by the fault-controlled thickness of their sedimentary fill, the occurrence of active faults and earthquake activity (Ahorner 1983;Zijerveld et al 1992;Plenefisch and Bonjer 1997;Schumacher 2002;Michon et al 2003). By contrast, there is no evidence for further subsidence of the Massif Central grabens , whereas the Bresse Graben was tensionally reactivated during the Pliocene (Sissingh 1998;De`zes et al 2004).…”

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“…Triassic and Jurassic reactivation of PermoCarboniferous faults, controlling subtle lateral facies and thickness changes, is also evident in the Paris Basin (Bessereau et al 1995;Goggin et al 1997) and the area of the Burgundy Trough . Mesozoic crustal extension played, however, a more important role in the area of the future Roer Graben that lies in the prolongation of the West Netherlands Basin (Zijerveld et al 1992), as well as in the area of the Rhoˆne Valley grabens that formed part of shelves flanking the Alpine Tethys and Pyrenean-Valais Ocean (Stampfli 1993;Stampfli et al 2001).…”

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Evolution of the lithosphere in the area of the Rhine Rift System

Ziegler

Dèzes

2005

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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The Rhine Rift System (RRS) forms part of the European Cenozoic Rift System (ECRIS) and transects the Variscan Orogen, Permo-Carboniferous troughs and Late Permian to Mesozoic thermal sag basins. Crustal and lithospheric thicknesses range in the RRS area between 24-36 km and 50-120 km, respectively. We discuss processes controlling the transformation of the orogenically destabilised Variscan lithosphere into an end-Mesozoic stabilised cratonic lithosphere, as well as its renewed destabilisation during the Cenozoic development of ECRIS. By end-Westphalian times, the major sutures of the Variscan Orogen were associated with 45-60 km deep crustal roots. During the Stephanian-Early Permian, regional exhumation of the Variscides was controlled by their wrench deformation, detachment of subducted lithospheric slabs, asthenospheric upwelling and thermal thinning of the mantlelithosphere. By late Early Permian times, when asthenospheric temperatures returned to ambient levels, lithospheric thicknesses ranged between 40 km and 80 km, whilst the thickness of the crust was reduced to 28-35 km in response to its regional erosional and local tectonic unroofing and the interaction of mantle-derived melts with its basal parts. Re-equilibration of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system governed the subsidence of Late Permian-Mesozoic thermal sag basins that covered much of the RRS area. By end-Cretaceous times, lithospheric thicknesses had increased to 100-120 km. Paleocene mantle plumes caused renewed thermal weakening of the lithosphere. Starting in the late Eocene, ECRIS evolved in the Pyrenean and Alpine foreland by passive rifting under a collision-related north-directed compressional stress field. Following endOligocene consolidation of the Pyrenees, west-and northwest-directed stresses originating in the Alps controlled further development of ECRIS. The RRS remained active until the Present, whilst the southern branch of ECRIS aborted in the early Miocene. Extensional strain across ECRIS amounts to some 7 km. Plume-related thermal thinning of the lithosphere underlies uplift of the Rhenish Massif and Massif Central. Lithospheric folding controlled uplift of the VosgesBlack Forest Arch.

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“…During the Early Miocene, the Leine Graben and part of the Roer Valley Graben were affected by inversion, possibly related to the onset of the thermal uplift of the Rhenish Massif, which included volcanic activity in the Siebengebirge (Teichmüller, 1972;Sissingh, 2003). Volcanic activity peaked during the Early Miocene (Lippolt, 1983), while also increase in differential movements (Savian tectonic phase) during this time have been proposed for the Roer Valley Graben and the Peel Block areas, although subsidence rates in the graben apparently did not accelerate before the Pliocene (Zijerveld et al, 1992).…”

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A southern North Sea Miocene dinoflagellate cyst zonation

Munsterman

Brinkhuis

2004

Netherlands Journal of Geosciences

108

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An integrated stratigraphical analysis emphasizing organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst) distribution has been carried out on multiple boreholes penetrating the Miocene in the subsurface of the Netherlands (southern North Sea Basin). The bulk of the investigated successions is attributed to the Breda Formation, a regional lithostatigraphical unit most complete in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands. In concert with a first regional integrated bio (chrono) sequence-stratigraphical framework, fourteen informal dinocyst zones for the southern North Sea Miocene (SNSM), and three subzones are proposed for the Breda Formation. By also integrating (chrono)stratigraphic information from Mediterranean and North Atlantic dinocyst studies a first ever detailed age-model is here proposed for the Miocene in the subsurface of the Netherlands.

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Subsidence analysis and modelling of the Roer Valley Graben (SE Netherlands)

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

Evolution of the lithosphere in the area of the Rhine Rift System

A southern North Sea Miocene dinoflagellate cyst zonation

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