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Preliminary statement of the onshore and offshore meso-cenozoic tectonic data in western Belgium and northern France
Dupuis, C.; Colbeaux, J.-P.; Henriet, J.-P.; De Batist, M.; Camelbeeck, Th.; Vandycke, S. (1989). Preliminary statement of the onshore and offshore meso-cenozoic tectonic data in western Belgium and northern France. Ann. Soc. Géol. Belg. (1968) 112(2): 311-312
In: Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique. Vaillant-Carmanne: Liège. ISSN 0037-9395, more
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Dupuis, C.; Camelbeeck, Th. (Ed.) (1989). Tectonique actuelle et récente en Belgique: a propos des tremblements de terre du Hainaut. Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique (1968), 112(2). Société Géologique de Belgique: Liege. 311-504 pp., more
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  • Dupuis, C.
  • Colbeaux, J.-P.
  • Henriet, J.-P., more
  • De Batist, M., more
  • Camelbeeck, Th.
  • Vandycke, S., more

Abstract
    A first comparison between the onshore and offshore informations leads to a tectonic sketch of the South North-Sea and the Detroit du Pas-de-Calais (Strait of Dover): The more striking feature is that significant structures (North Hinder and Gravelines structures) seem to extend offshore the transverse faults known in the Paleozoic beds of Pas-de-Calais and Boulonnais. This set of deformations can be interpreted as reactions of the thick Meso-Cenozoic cover to fractures acting in the Paleozoic basement. Towards the South, between the Zone de Cisaillement Nord-Artois and the Faille de Montreuil-Bassurelle, along the Weald Artois Axis, where the Meso-Cenozoic cover is thinner, the transverse faults, probably dependent upon the same fractures, have a dextral strike-slip character both in Paleozoic basement and in the Cretaceous strata. The size and significance of this assumed deep faults are discussed in the framework of a model of this part of the Southern North-Sea.

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