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Eocene to early Oligocene deltas in the Southern North Sea Bight, Belgium
Jacobs, P. (1995). Eocene to early Oligocene deltas in the Southern North Sea Bight, Belgium, in: Oti, M.N. et al. (Ed.) Geology of deltas. pp. 139-152
In: Oti, M.N.; Postma, G. (Ed.) (1995). Geology of deltas. Balkema: Rotterdam. 316 pp., more
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    The Southern North Sea Bight is a shallow marine, siliciclastic and intracratonic basin with gently dipping sediment packages indicative for a ramp-type basin margin. Four cored wells near the Belgian coast contain together a nearly continuous, 200m thick sediment succession of Eocene till early Oligocene age. Facies analysis suggests that part of these sediments are deposited in delta systems and part on muddy shelf. A sedimentation model for the delta complex is presented. Sequence stratigraphic analysis provides new clues for the reconstruction of relative sea-level changes and for the genetic interpretation of the various lithologic units and the large-scale architecture of the ramp-type margin.
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