Stratigraphy and tectonics of the Roer Valley Graben
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The Roer Valley Graben is the most prominent Cenozoic tectonic feature in the Netherlands onshore, filled with up to 2000 m of predominantly Upper Oligocene to Quaternary sediments. It forms the northwestern branch of the Rhine Graben rift system. To the northeast the graben is bordered by a major faultzone, the Peel Boundary Fault, and to the southwest by a number of downstepping faults. The Roer Valley Graben developed upon pre-existing sedimentary basins of Carboniferous, Triassic to Early Jurassic and Late Jurassic age. Differential subsidence of the Roer Valley Graben started during the Late Oligocene. Fault displacements at the southwestern boundary faults of the Roer Valley Graben are smaller than at the Peel Boundary Fault. -from Authors
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232748
Source
Geologie en Mijnbouw, 73(2-4), pp. 129-141.
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129-141