Saar–Nahe Basin

Saar–Nahe Basin is a molasse basin in southwest Germany. The basin is located south of the Hunsrück mountains between the rivers Nahe and the Saar. The aggregation of sediments in the basin started in the late Carboniferous and Early Permian as part of the Variscan orogeny.

See also

• Saar-Nahe Hills

Further reading

• "Bildung und Struktur des Saar-Nahe-Beckens".
• "Numerische Simulation der geologischen Entwicklungsgeschichte des permokarbonen Saar-Nahe-Beckens" (PDF).
• Henk, Andreas (1992). "Mächtigkeit und Alter der erodierten Sedimente im Saar-Nahe-Becken (SW-Deutschland)". Geologische Rundschau. 81 (2): 323–331. Bibcode:1992GeoRu..81..323H. doi:10.1007/BF01828601. S2CID 140708737.
• Geologie von Rheinland-Pfalz. Schweizerbart. 2005. ISBN 978-3-510-65215-0.
• Korsch, R.J.; Schäfer, A. (1995). "The Permo-Carboniferous Saar-Nahe Basin, south-west Germany and north-east France: basin formation and deformation in a strike-slip regime". Geologische Rundschau. 84 (2): 293. Bibcode:1995GeoRu..84..293K. doi:10.1007/BF00260442. S2CID 129250737.
• Schäfer, A.; Korsch, R.J. (1998). "Formation and sediment fill of the Saar-Nahe Basin (Permo-Carboniferous, Germany)". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft. 149 (2): 233–269. doi:10.1127/zdgg/149/1998/233.
• Einsele, Gerhard (2000). Sedimentary basins: evolution, facies, and sediment budget. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-66193-1.
• Breitkreuz, Christoph; Petford, Nick (2004). Physical geology of high-level magmatic systems. ISBN 978-1-86239-169-7.
• "Rotliegendlandschaften Deutschlands" (PDF).
• Schäfer, Andreas (1989). "Variscan molasse in the Saar-Nahe Basin (W-Germany), Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian". Geologische Rundschau. 78 (2): 499–524. Bibcode:1989GeoRu..78..499S. doi:10.1007/BF01776188. S2CID 140573656.
• Henk, Andreas (1992). "Mächtigkeit und Alter der erodierten Sedimente im Saar-Nahe-Becken (SW-Deutschland)". Geologische Rundschau. 81 (2): 323–331. Bibcode:1992GeoRu..81..323H. doi:10.1007/BF01828601. S2CID 140708737.
• Lorenz, Volker (1967). "Zur Genese neuentdeckter Vulkanschlote in der Umgebung des Donnersberges/Pfalz". Geologische Rundschau. 57 (1): 189–198. Bibcode:1967GeoRu..57..189L. doi:10.1007/BF01825723. S2CID 124132861.
• Von Seckendorff, V.; Arz, C.; Lorenz, V. (2004). "Magmatism of the late Variscan intermontane Saar-Nahe Basin (Germany): a review". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 223 (1): 361–391. Bibcode:2004GSLSP.223..361V. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.223.01.16. S2CID 129240490.
• Stollhofen, H.; Frommherz, B.; Stanistreet, I. G. (1999). "Volcanic rocks as discriminants in evaluating tectonic versus climatic control on depositional sequences, Permo-Carboniferous continental Saar-Nahe Basin". Journal of the Geological Society. 156 (4): 801. Bibcode:1999JGSoc.156..801S. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.156.4.0801. S2CID 130529500.
• Marjorie Wilson, B (2004). Permo-carboniferous magmatism and rifting in Europe. p. 361. ISBN 978-1-86239-152-9.