Implications of continuous structural inversion in the West Netherlands Basin for understanding controls on Palaeogene deformation in NW Europe

International audience ; A detailed analysis of high-quality 3D seismic and borehole data provides new insights into the Palaeogene tectonic history and inversion of the West Netherlands Basin. The inversion characteristics are compared with those of other basins in the region, to provide constraints on the Palaeogene compressional tectonic movements in NW Europe. The inversion of the West Netherlands Basin, which is characterized by the doming of the basin centre and by the reactivation of pre-existing faults in a reverse mode, was found to be the result of a continuous inversion process rath... Mehr ...