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After the Caledonian orogeny the folded and metamorphosed Cambro-Silurian sediments of the Nordland Shelf were subjected to erosion, and local Devonian intra-montane clastic basins formed around the eroding highs. In mid-Devonian times sinistral wrench faulting established an important tectonic trend which controlled the later development of the Traenabanken area. Major normal faulting at the start of Permian times created a deep basin in the east of Traenabanken. This basin was filled progressively with Permian clastics and marine carbonates and was subsequently covered with a thick continental Trias sequence. Extensive coal formation in earliest Jurassic times marked the transition from continental to marine depositional environments. Apart from some synsedimentary faulting in mid-Jurassic times, the Permian to end Middle Jurassic sequence is relatively undisturbed by tectonic movements.
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Gowers, M.B., Lunde, G. (1984). The geological history of Trænabanken. In: Spencer, A.M. (eds) Petroleum Geology of the North European Margin. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5626-1_17
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