ICONS atlas: EUR - Norwegian-Danish Basin

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Overview

This page bundles the available data for the Norwegian-Danish Basin in the European Region. The images are hyperlinks and will open up a separate window with a high resolution PDF image of the map.
The basin data is derived from a lower resolution grid which has been upsampled using GMT. This could have introduced an accuracy which is beyond the original data resolution.

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Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Basin name Norwegian-Danish Basin
Region code EUR
Basin ID 3030
Plate location/code pasv divrg cont marg/PDC
Basin cross section

The basin cross section is automatically generated using the available crustal structure data sets. Sometimes the data labels are not plotted correctly, depending on the length of the section.

The location of the profile is indicated in all maps as dashed-dotted thin black line. For the endpoints of the profile, the two points of a given polygon located farthest away from each other were computed.

Norwegian-Danish Basin cross section
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Dynamic topography evolution for basin centroid
Norwegian-Danish Basin dynamic topography through time

The dynamic topography history for the basin is derived by tracking the basin centroid. The paleo-location for this point is computed using the EarthByte plate kinematic framework rotating the position back in time.

The dynamic topography model is derived from the S20RTS seismic tomography model (Ritsema et al., 99) by converting seismic velocites to density anomalies using an empirical scaling factor of 0.25. The density anomalies are then advected back in time to compute mantle flow with plate motions superimposed (using the EarthByte plate rotation framework) as surface boundary conditions. The dynamic topography is then derived from the computed density distribution using a free upper boundary. For details regarding the methodology see the following papers:

  • B. Steinberger, H. Schmeling, and G. Marquart. Large-scale lithospheric stress field and topography induced by global mantle circulation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 186:75-91, 2001.
    doi: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00229-1.
  • B. Steinberger. Effects of latent heat release at phase boundaries on flow in the Earth's mantle, phase boundary topography and dynamic topography at the Earth's surface. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 164:2-20, 2007.
    doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.04.021.

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Observations

Mantle Lid thickness
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Mantle Lid thickness
Median 81.858
Mean 81.461
Scale 8.085
stdev 7.857
Z_min/Location 62.329/55.4667°Lat 9.1°Lon
Z_max/Location 98.463/ 56.2°Lat 11.9667°Lon

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Depth of 550 deg isotherm
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Depth of 550 deg isotherm
Median -35.344
Mean -35.325
Scale 1.372
stdev 1.497
Z_min/Location -39.028/56.1667°Lat 12.0667°Lon
Z_max/Location -31.818/ 55.4667°Lat 9.1°Lon

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Mobil isopachs
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Mobil isopachs
Median 8.020
Mean 7.969
Scale 2.274
stdev 2.205
Z_min/Location 0.854/58.6667°Lat 4.96667°Lon
Z_max/Location 12.209/ 56.2°Lat 7.86667°Lon

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Plain crustal thickness
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Plain crustal thickness
Median 24.648
Mean 24.702
Scale 4.552
stdev 2.964
Z_min/Location 20.057/57.2°Lat 5.76667°Lon
Z_max/Location 28.161/ 56.0°Lat 8.9°Lon

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Base middle crust
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Base middle crust
Median -20.888
Mean -20.540
Scale 1.835
stdev 1.780
Z_min/Location -23.481/57.3333°Lat 8.53333°Lon
Z_max/Location -17.072/ 57.0667°Lat 5.86667°Lon

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Base lower crust
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Base lower crust
Median -29.044
Mean -28.606
Scale 3.105
stdev 2.623
Z_min/Location -31.736/57.2333°Lat 8.96667°Lon
Z_max/Location -23.823/ 56.9667°Lat 5.86667°Lon

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Total crustal thickness
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Total crustal thickness
Median 28.945
Mean 28.555
Scale 3.186
stdev 2.638
Z_min/Location 23.771/56.9667°Lat 5.86667°Lon
Z_max/Location 31.646/ 57.1667°Lat 9.13333°Lon

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Base upper crust
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Base upper crust
Median -11.947
Mean -12.037
Scale 1.448
stdev 1.086
Z_min/Location -14.043/57.3333°Lat 8.56667°Lon
Z_max/Location -10.459/ 56.8333°Lat 5.83333°Lon

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Thermal lithospheric thickness
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Thermal lithospheric thickness
Median 111.066
Mean 111.075
Scale 6.663
stdev 7.298
Z_min/Location 93.566/55.4667°Lat 9.1°Lon
Z_max/Location 129.462/ 56.1667°Lat 12.0667°Lon

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Heatflow
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Heatflow
Median 61.562
Mean 61.585
Scale 2.118
stdev 2.021
Z_min/Location 56.740/56.1°Lat 12.4333°Lon
Z_max/Location 66.455/ 55.5667°Lat 9.76667°Lon

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Topography (ETOPO2)
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Topography (ETOPO2)
Median -42.000
Mean -41.184
Scale 50.408
stdev 68.914
Z_min/Location -295.000/58.9667°Lat 4.13333°Lon
Z_max/Location 158.000/ 56.0°Lat 9.8°Lon

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Base hard sediments
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Base hard sediments
Median -3.750
Mean -3.904
Scale 0.698
stdev 0.718
Z_min/Location -5.596/58.1°Lat 4.0°Lon
Z_max/Location -2.857/ 56.3667°Lat 4.63333°Lon

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Temperature at 50km depth
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Temperature at 50km depth
Median 794.544
Mean 795.250
Scale 31.767
stdev 33.310
Z_min/Location 716.071/56.1667°Lat 12.0667°Lon
Z_max/Location 880.768/ 55.4667°Lat 9.1°Lon

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Laske sediment thickness
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Laske sediment thickness
Median 3.548
Mean 3.671
Scale 0.918
stdev 0.907
Z_min/Location 2.150/56.0°Lat 10.0°Lon
Z_max/Location 6.025/ 57.0333°Lat 3.86667°Lon

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Lithospheric temperature gradient
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Lithospheric temperature gradient
Median 8.527
Mean 8.521
Scale 0.368
stdev 0.348
Z_min/Location 7.651/56.0333°Lat 12.5667°Lon
Z_max/Location 9.277/ 55.4667°Lat 9.1°Lon

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Computations

Isostatic correction
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Isostatic correction
Median 1.410
Mean 1.445
Scale 0.332
stdev 0.321
Z_min/Location 0.886/56.0°Lat 10.0°Lon
Z_max/Location 2.239/57.0333°Lat 3.86667°Lon

Comments

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TTS (sediment)
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - TTS (sediment)
Median 2.369
Mean 2.459
Scale 0.460
stdev 0.633
Z_min/Location 0.720/56.0667°Lat 5.03333°Lon
Z_max/Location 4.055/58.2333°Lat 3.93333°Lon

Comments

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Beta (Sediment)
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Beta (Sediment)
Median 1.435
Mean 1.482
Scale 0.116
stdev 0.201
Z_min/Location 1.101/56.0667°Lat 5.03333°Lon
Z_max/Location 2.077/58.2333°Lat 3.93333°Lon

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Crustal vs lithosph. extn.
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Crustal vs lithosph. extn.
Median -0.091
Mean -0.068
Scale 0.112
stdev 0.141
Z_min/Location -0.333/55.4667°Lat 9.1°Lon
Z_max/Location 0.258/57.8667°Lat 4.83333°Lon

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Anomalous TTS
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Anomalous TTS
Median 2.782
Mean 2.343
Scale 0.559
stdev 0.873
Z_min/Location 0.308/56.0333°Lat 5.1°Lon
Z_max/Location 3.557/58.9333°Lat 3.2°Lon

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Predicted elevation
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Predicted elevation
Median 839.863
Mean 739.164
Scale 249.008
stdev 329.201
Z_min/Location -13.760/57.6°Lat 5.76667°Lon
Z_max/Location 1213.800/55.5333°Lat 9.03333°Lon

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Beta (Crust)
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Beta (Crust)
Median 1.017
Mean 1.030
Scale 0.174
stdev 0.127
Z_min/Location 0.890/56.0°Lat 8.9°Lon
Z_max/Location 1.250/57.2°Lat 5.76667°Lon

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TTS (crust)
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - TTS (crust)
Median 0.132
Mean 0.116
Scale 1.420
stdev 0.924
Z_min/Location -0.964/56.0°Lat 8.9°Lon
Z_max/Location 1.564/57.2°Lat 5.76667°Lon

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Differential Beta
Norwegian-Danish Basin location map
Statistics - Differential Beta
Median 0.452
Mean 0.452
Scale 0.138
stdev 0.188
Z_min/Location 0.047/56.0333°Lat 5.06667°Lon
Z_max/Location 0.914/58.3333°Lat 3.7°Lon

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This basin data is based on interpolated global grids and might contain gridding errors or wrongly interpolated data values.

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