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Overview
The Northern German Basin is composite of intra-continental basins located across northern Germany from the southern portion of the North Sea to north Poland. The North German Basin is one of the main structures found within the Central European Basin Systems and is composed of Permian to Cenozoic sediments accumulated to thicknesses around 10 km.

Late Carboniferous-Permian
The initiation of the Northern German Basin occurred approximately 299 MYA (Million Years Ago) during the Late Carboniferous due to crustal rifting and wrenching in addition to huge amounts of volcanism(>40,000 km^3 )and magmatism ref name=Scheck>. Theses processes were then followed by thermal cooling and subsidence of the region. (where?! Brink et al 1992)

Triassic
During the Triassic, 252 to 200 MYA, there was a phase of new rifting causing extinction across the Northern German Basin. This rifting event was then followed by another phase of subsidence in which the Gluckstadt Graben was formed. (Schleck and Brink)

Jurrassic
During the Early to Mid Jurrassic, 201 to 161 MYA, a thermal dome in the center of North Sea caused a doming event which caused surface uplift which then was followed by thermal subsidence (ziegler 1990) During the Late Jurrassic to the Early Cretaceous, 161 to 100 MYA