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Periodical Events in the North Sea Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

J. H. F. Umbgrove
J. H. F. Umbgrove
Affiliation:
Delft, Holland
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The North Sea Basin is enclosed on its western and eastern sides by two axes of elevation, viz. the Pennines (a5 of Text-fig. 7) and the axis of Erkelenz (a3). The fault-zone of the Limburg coal district broadens towards the north-west into the graben of the central Netherlands. In the opposite direction it is connected with the Rhine-graben. The southern border of the North Sea Basin is formed by the Brabant Massif. It dates from at least pre-Carboniferous times, but its influence as a geanticlinal ridge of elevation was manifest in many Mesozoic and Cenozoic epochs. In a voluminous memoir Stevens (6) pointed out that the present morphology of Belgium—e.g. the pattern of the rivers—still reveals the influence of this important element.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 82 , Issue 6 , December 1945 , pp. 237 - 244
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1945

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