Thirty years of research, and especially the refinements of many geological, geochemical
and geophysical techniques, have uncovered many new facets of the geology of the …

Pre-existing structures within crystalline basement may exert a significant influence over the
evolution of rifts. However, the exact manner in which these structures reactivate and thus …

Abstract The northern North Sea rift evolved through multiple rift phases within a highly
heterogeneous crystalline basement. The geometry and evolution of syn‐rift depocenters …

Pre-existing intra-basement shear zones can induce mechanical and rheological
heterogeneities that may influence rifting and the overall geometry of rift-related normal …

As part of the recent discoveries on the Utsira High (Edvard Grieg and Johan Sverdrup
fields), altered and fractured basement rocks were for the first time shown to act as a …

Fractures are fundamental structural elements in brittle rocks. They have a primary role in
transporting geofluids, particularly in basement and carbonate rocks, where they have been …

The multiscale analysis of lineament patterns helps define the geometric scaling laws and
the relationships between outcrop-and regional-scale structures in a fracture network. Here …

Fractured and weathered crystalline basement units below erosional unconformities
potentially represent unconventional reservoirs for georesources (oil, mineral and water) …

Abstract The Caledonian and Variscan orogens in northern Europe and the Alpine-age
Apennine range in Italy are classic examples of thrust belts that were developed at the …

The Caledonian orogen can be traced for several thousand kilometres from the Arctic region
southward on both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean (Fig. 1). The orogen formed in the …