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A southern North Sea Miocene dinoflagellate cyst zonation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

D.K. Munsterman  and
H. Brinkhuis
D.K. Munsterman*
Affiliation:
Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO -, National Geological Survey, P.O. Box 80015, 3508TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
H. Brinkhuis
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
*
*Fax: +31 30 256 48 55, E-mail:dirk.munsterman@tno.nl(corresponding author)

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An integrated stratigraphical analysis emphasizing organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst) distribution has been carried out on multiple boreholes penetrating the Miocene in the subsurface of the Netherlands (southern North Sea Basin). The bulk of the investigated successions is attributed to the Breda Formation, a regional lithostatigraphical unit most complete in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands. In concert with a first regional integrated bio (chrono) sequence-stratigraphical framework, fourteen informal dinocyst zones for the southern North Sea Miocene (SNSM), and three subzones are proposed for the Breda Formation. By also integrating (chrono)stratigraphic information from Mediterranean and North Atlantic dinocyst studies a first ever detailed age-model is here proposed for the Miocene in the subsurface of the Netherlands.

Keywords

southern North Seathe NetherlandsMioceneBreda Formationbiostratigraphysequence stratigraphypalynologyorganic-walled dinoflagellate cysts

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Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , December 2004 , pp. 267 - 285
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Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2004

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