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Fluid flow in the northern Broad Fourteens Basin during Late Cretaceous inversion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

L. Bouw  and
G.H.P. Oude Essink
L. Bouw*
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology, Hydrology & Ecology Group, P.O. box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, the Netherlands
G.H.P. Oude Essink
Affiliation:
Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO - National Geological Survey, P.O. box 80015, 3508TA Utrecht, the Netherlands (e-mail: g.oudeessink@nitg.tno.nl) & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands, e-mail: oudg@geo.vu.nl
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1Corresponding author, e-mail: L.Bouw@CiTG.TUDelft.nl
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A basin-scale hydrogeological study of the inverted northern Broad Fourteens Basin, Netherlands offshore, has resulted in a reconstruction of geological evolution, an estimate of Late Cretaceous topography and model scenarios of syn-inversion meteoric water infiltration. This study was performed in the scope of a basin-scale analysis of the hydrogeological setting and hydrodynamic evolution of the Broad Fourteens Basin. This analysis is aimed at obtaining quantitative knowledge of depositional history and hydrogeological parameters, and qualitative knowledge of hydrodynamic evolution of the Broad Fourteens Basin from Carboniferous to present-day. We present an overview of the tectonic and depositional history, the most likely hydrogeological setting and model scenarios of Late Cretaceous meteoric water infiltration in the northern Broad Fourteens area.

We constructed a detailed south-west north-east geological cross-section of the present-day northern Broad Fourteens Basin, and reconstructed Late Cretaceous basin geometry and topography. Using this geometry in a numerical model of density-dependent topography-driven fluid flow, we modelled several scenarios of meteoric water infiltration with estimated ranges of basin-scale permeabilities and water table head. Results indicate that a deep freshwater lens was developed during Late Cretaceous inversion, if the basin-scale hydraulic conductivity of the Rijnland and Altena Groups was at least 1⋅10-9 to 1⋅10-10 m/s, which is in general the highest value for claystones.

Keywords

basin inversionBroad Fourteens Basinmeteoric water infiltrationNetherlands North Seanumerical modelssedimentary basins
Type
Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 82 , Special Issue 1: Geofluids in the Netherlands , April 2003 , pp. 55 - 69
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2003

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