High resolution stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental changes in the southern North Sea during the Neogene: An integrated study of Late Cenozoic marine deposits from the northern part of the Dutch offshore area

This thesis is the result of a multidisciplinary study on the prograding marine Neogene sedimentary succession of the southern North Sea Basin. To date, sediment material available from the Neogene North Sea is very scarce. Its location between 400 and 1500 m below the seabed in the depocentre of the basin is usually to deep for conventional scientific drilling campaigns. These sediments, on the other hand, are situated far above economically interesting hydrocarbon occurrences and are thus not of primary interest for oil companies that usually focus on deeper targets. Recent shallow gas findi... Mehr ...