Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe, Volume 1 |
Contents
JurassicEarly Cretaceous Opening of Central and North Atlantic | 91 |
Late Cretaceous and Paleocene breakup of Laurasia and Alpine Collision | 123 |
Alpine Suturing of Europe and Africa Opening of NorwegianGreenland Sea | 143 |
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Albian Alpine Arctic-North Atlantic Armorican Autunian back-arc back-arc extension basement Bohemian Massif Caledonian Caledonides Callovian carbonates Carboniferous Celtic Sea Cenozoic Central Europe Central Graben Central North Sea clastic compressional continental craton crust crustal extension deformation deposition Devonian domain Early Cretaceous encl Eocene evidence evolution fault systems foreland basin Geol Gondwana Graham & Trotman Greenland inversion Late Cretaceous Late Jurassic lithosphere London Massif Central Mesozoic Miocene Namurian nappes nian North Sea North Sea Basin North-West Europe northern North oceanic basins Oligocene orogenic Palaeozoic Paleocene Paris Basin Petrol Petroleum Geology phase plate Platform Polish Trough Publ regional Rhenish Rhine Graben rift system Rotliegend sands sea level sea-floor spreading sedimentary sediments seismic shales Shelf Shetland southern margin southern North Sea Spec Stephanian stratigraphic structural subduction subsidence tectonic Tectonophysics terrane Tethys thermal thickness tion transgression Triassic unconformity uplift Viking Graben Visean Western and Central Westphalian Zechstein Ziegler zone