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The structure of the Western Approaches margin and of the Hurd Deep are inherited from the major Cretaceous and Mid-Tertiary orogenesis phases. The phase of extension related to the opening of the Atlantic Ocean during the Cretaceous time marked the Western Approaches margin structure whereas the Mid-Tertiary Pyrenean Orogenesis phase of compression gave birth to the Hurd Deep semi-graben (Lericolais et al. 1996). The prograding prism of the outer shelf built up during the Neogene (Jones and Cockburn formations) and then was remoulded during the glacio-eustatic period of the Plio-Quaternary (Evans 1990).
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Bourillet, JF., Lericolais, G. (2003). Morphology and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Manche Paleoriver System, Western Approaches. In: Mienert, J., Weaver, P. (eds) European Margin Sediment Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55846-7_37
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