Palaeozoic and Mesozoic igneous activity in the Netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review
To date, igneous rocks, either intrusive or extrusive, have been encountered in the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary series of the Netherlands in some 65 exploration and production wells. Following 17 new isotopic K/Ar age determinations of the recovered rock material (amounting to a total of 28 isot...
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ftunivutrecht:oai:dspace.library.uu.nl:1874/28686 2023-07-23T04:19:32+02:00 Palaeozoic and Mesozoic igneous activity in the Netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review Sissingh, W. 2004-07 text/plain https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/28686 en eng 0016-7746 https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/28686 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Earth Sciences Palaeozoic Mesozoic the Netherlands magmatism volcanism plate tectonics orogenic phase tectonomagmatic history Article 2004 ftunivutrecht 2023-07-01T23:30:14Z To date, igneous rocks, either intrusive or extrusive, have been encountered in the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary series of the Netherlands in some 65 exploration and production wells. Following 17 new isotopic K/Ar age determinations of the recovered rock material (amounting to a total of 28 isotopic ages from 21 different wells), analysis of the stratigraphy distribution of the penetrated igneous rock bodies showed that the timing of their emplacement was importantly controlled by orogenic phases involving intra-plate wrench and rift tectonics. Magmatism coincided with the Acadian (Late Devonian), Sudetian (early Late Carboniferous), Saalian (Early Permian), Early Kimmerian (late Late Triassic), Mid-Kimmerian (Late Jurassic), Late Kimmerian (earliest Cretaceous) and Austrian (latest Early Cretaceous) tectonic phases. This synchroneity presumably reflects (broadly) coeval structural reorganizations of respectively the Baltica/Fennoscandinavia-Laurentia/Greenland, Laurussia-Gondwana, African-Eurasia and Greenland/Rockall-Eurasia plate assemblies. Through their concomitant changes of the intra-plate tectonic stress regime, inter-plate motions induced intra-plate tectonism and magmatism. These plate-tectonics related events determined the tectonomagmatic history of the Dutch realm by inducing the formation of localized centres, as well as isolated spot occurrences, of igneous activity. Some of these centres were active at (about) the same time. At a number of centres igneous activity re-occurred after a long period of time. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Utrecht University Repository Greenland |
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To date, igneous rocks, either intrusive or extrusive, have been encountered in the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary series of the Netherlands in some 65 exploration and production wells. Following 17 new isotopic K/Ar age determinations of the recovered rock material (amounting to a total of 28 isotopic ages from 21 different wells), analysis of the stratigraphy distribution of the penetrated igneous rock bodies showed that the timing of their emplacement was importantly controlled by orogenic phases involving intra-plate wrench and rift tectonics. Magmatism coincided with the Acadian (Late Devonian), Sudetian (early Late Carboniferous), Saalian (Early Permian), Early Kimmerian (late Late Triassic), Mid-Kimmerian (Late Jurassic), Late Kimmerian (earliest Cretaceous) and Austrian (latest Early Cretaceous) tectonic phases. This synchroneity presumably reflects (broadly) coeval structural reorganizations of respectively the Baltica/Fennoscandinavia-Laurentia/Greenland, Laurussia-Gondwana, African-Eurasia and Greenland/Rockall-Eurasia plate assemblies. Through their concomitant changes of the intra-plate tectonic stress regime, inter-plate motions induced intra-plate tectonism and magmatism. These plate-tectonics related events determined the tectonomagmatic history of the Dutch realm by inducing the formation of localized centres, as well as isolated spot occurrences, of igneous activity. Some of these centres were active at (about) the same time. At a number of centres igneous activity re-occurred after a long period of time. |
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Palaeozoic and Mesozoic igneous activity in the Netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review |
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Palaeozoic and Mesozoic igneous activity in the Netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review |
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Palaeozoic and Mesozoic igneous activity in the Netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review |
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Palaeozoic and Mesozoic igneous activity in the Netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review |
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Palaeozoic and Mesozoic igneous activity in the Netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review |
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palaeozoic and mesozoic igneous activity in the netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review |
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