A southern North Sea Miocene dinoflagellate cyst zonation

  • D.K. Munsterman Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience TNO -, National Geological Survey, P.O. Box 80015, 3508TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
  • H. Brinkhuis Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, the Netherlands
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016774600020369
Keywords: southern North Sea, the Netherlands, Miocene, Breda Formation, biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, palynology, organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts

Abstract

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.

Published
2004-12-01
How to Cite
D.K. Munsterman, & H. Brinkhuis. (2004). A southern North Sea Miocene dinoflagellate cyst zonation. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 83, 267 - 285. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016774600020369
Issue
Volume 83 - 2004
Section
Regular paper
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