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Palaeozoic and Mesozoic igneous activity in the Netherlands: a tectonomagmatic review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

W. Sissingh
W. Sissingh*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3384 CD Utrecht, The Netherlands; e-mail:w.sissingh@geo.uu.nl
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To date, igneous rocks, either intrusive or extrusive, have been encountered in the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic sedimentary series of the Netherlands in some 65 exploration and production wells. Following 17 new isotopic K/Ar age determinations of the recovered rock material (amounting to a total of 28 isotopic ages from 21 different wells), analysis of the stratigraphic distribution of the penetrated igneous rock bodies showed that the timing of their emplacement was importantly controlled by orogenic phases involving intra-plate wrench and rift tectonics. Magmatism coincided with the Acadian (Late Devonian), Sudetian (early Late Carboniferous), Saalian (Early Permian), Early Kimmerian (late Late Triassic), Mid-Kimmerian (Late Jurassic), Late Kimmerian (earliest Cretaceous) and Austrian (latest Early Cretaceous) tectonic phases. This synchroneity presumably reflects (broadly) coeval structural reorganizations of respectively the Baltica/Fennoscandinavia-Laurentia/Greenland, Laurussia-Gondwana, African-Eurasia and Greenland/Rockall-Eurasia plate assemblies. Through their concomitant changes of the intra-plate tectonic stress regime, inter-plate motions induced intra-plate tectonism and magmatism. These plate-tectonics related events determined the tectonomagmatic history of the Dutch realm by inducing the formation of localized centres, as well as isolated spot occurrences, of igneous activity. Some of these centres were active at (about) the same time. At a number of centres igneous activity re-occurred after a long period of time.

Keywords

PalaeozoicMesozoicthe Netherlandsmagmatismvolcanismplate tectonicsorogenic phasestectonomagmatic history
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Research Article
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 83 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 113 - 134
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Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2004

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