High-resolution seismic analysis of the coastal Mecklenburg Bay (North German Basin): the pre-Alpine evolution |
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| Authors: | H Zöllner K Reicherter P Schikowsky |
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| Institution: | 1.Institut für Geophysik und Geologie,Universit?t Leipzig,Leipzig,Germany;2.Neotektonik und Georisiken,RWTH Aachen,Aachen,Germany |
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| Abstract: | The pre-Alpine structural and geological evolution in the northern part of the North German Basin have been revealed on the
basis of a very dense reflection seismic profile grid. The study area is situated in the coastal Mecklenburg Bay (Germany),
part of the southwestern Baltic Sea. From the central part of the North German Basin to the northern basin margin in the Grimmen
High area a series of high-resolution maps show the evolution from the base Zechstein to the Lower Jurassic. We present a
map of basement faults affecting the pre-Zechstein. The pre-Alpine structural evolution of the region has been determined
from digital mapping of post-Permian key horizons traced on the processed seismic time sections. The geological evolution
of the North German Basin can be separated into four distinct periods in the Rerik study area. During Late Permian and Early
Triassic evaporites and clastics were deposited. Salt movement was initiated after the deposition of the Middle Triassic Muschelkalk.
Salt pillows, which were previously unmapped in the study area, are responsible for the creation of smaller subsidence centers
and angular unconformities in the Late Triassic Keuper, especially in the vicinity of the fault-bounded Grimmen High. In this
area, partly Lower Jurassic sediments overlie the Keuper unconformably. The change from extension to compression in the regional
stress field remobilized the salt, leading to a major unconformity marked at the base of the Late Cretaceous. |
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| Keywords: | Pre-Alpine geological evolution North German Basin Salt tectonics Grimmen High |
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