Tertiary stratigraphy of the Netherlands

Abstract

Analysis of stratigraphic relationships and depositional characteristics shows that the deposition of the Paleogene of The Netherlands was governed particularly try global cycles of (marine) transgressions and regressions. Shorelines generally lay in the south and southeast. Intercalated sands were derived from the Central European hinterland. The depositional history of the Neogene is closely related to the development of the Lower Rhine Embayment and the Rhine River system. It also manifests the onset of the formation of the deltaic fan system which has characterized the onshore Netherlands since the early Pleistocene.