The Northern North Sea basin is a large sedimentary basin lying between Norway and Denmark to the east and Scotland and England to the west, formed by extensional tectonics that stretched and rotated fault blocks across a rift roughly 150 to 200 kilometers wide. Its rock strata span from before the Triassic period through the Tertiary, accumulated first during active rifting and then through thermal subsidence as the stretched crust cooled over roughly 100 million years. The basin is one of the world's most productive hydrocarbon provinces, holding more than 100 billion barrels of recoverable oil and natural gas.
Connections
Caused By
Source Northern North Sea basin (Wikipedia)
In Discipline
Source Northern North Sea basin (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Northern North Sea basin (Wikipedia)Article leadQuote, Article lead
The North Sea is part of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Europe.
Sources
Northern North Sea basin (Wikipedia)
In Discipline: Oceanography, Lead paragraph
The North Sea is part of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Europe
Caused By: Rifting, Lead
The northern North Sea Paleorift system, including the Viking and Sogn graben, is an approximately 150-200 km wide zone of extended upper crust with preserved strata from pre-Triassic to Tertiary.
In Group: Sedimentary and Rift Basins, Lead sentence
A geological basin is a large low-lying area or depression.
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.