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Structure and evolution of the Glueckstadt Graben due to salt movements

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The salt tectonics of the Glueckstadt Graben has been investigated in relation to major tectonic events within the basin. The lithologic features of salt sections from Rotliegend, Zechstein and Keuper show that almost pure salt is prominent in the Zechstein, dominating diapiric movements that have influenced the regional evolution of the Glueckstadt Graben. Three main phases of growth of the salt structures have been identified from the analysis of the seismic pattern. The strongest salt movements occurred at the beginning of the Keuper when the area was affected by extension. This activation of salt tectonics was followed by a Jurassic extensional event in the Pompeckj Block and Lower Saxony Basin and possibly in the Glueckstadt Graben. The Paleogene–Neogene tectonic event caused significant growth and amplification of the salt structures mainly at the margins of the basin. This event was extensional with a possible horizontal component of the tectonic movements. 3D modelling shows that the distribution of the initial thickness of the Permian salt controls the structural style of the basin, regionally. Where salt was thick, salt diapirs and walls formed and where salt was relatively thin, simple salt pillows and shallow anticlines developed.

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Abbreviations

GG:

Glueckstadt Graben

CEBS:

Central European Basin System

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the DGMK as representative of the German Oil and Gas Industry for supporting us with data and allowing us to present industrial data (DGMK project 577). Authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the German Research Council (SFB 1135). We also thank Björn Lewerenz and our colleagues from the DFG-SPP 1135 for fruitful discussions. We are grateful to the company Nord-Express (and personally grateful to Mykola Golyarchuk) for free-of-charge transfer of the software for digital processing of the seismic data (SPS-PC). We would also like to thank Heinz-Jürgen Brink and Hans Thybo for providing helpful reviews. Special thanks to Andrew Cavanagh for improvement of English.

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    Yuriy Maystrenko, Ulf Bayer & Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

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Maystrenko, Y., Bayer, U. & Scheck-Wenderoth, M. Structure and evolution of the Glueckstadt Graben due to salt movements. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 94, 799–814 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-005-0003-4

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