Fault-controlled fluid circulation and diagenesis along basin-bounding fault systems in rifts - Insights from the East Greenland rift system

• Published in: Solid Earth
• Main Authors: Salomon, Eric, Rotevatn, Atle, Kristensen, Thomas Berg, Grundvåg, Sten-Andreas, Henstra, Gijs Allard, Meckler, Anna Nele, Albert, Richard, Gerdes, Axel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2020
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450; Dombjerg; Greenland; Kristensen; Wollaston; Wollaston Forland; Arctic; East Greenland; Wollaston forland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/19969; https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-1987-2020

In marine rift basins, deep-water clastics (>200 m) in the hanging wall of rift- or basin-bounding fault systems are commonly juxtaposed against crystalline “basement” rocks in the footwall. A distinct feature of such fault systems is therefore the juxtaposition of relatively highly permeable, un...