Late Miocene increase in sediment accommodation rates in the southern North Sea Basin

Boreholes provided with biostratigraphic data indicate major changes in the Miocene sediment accommodation rates in the northern Campine Block, located in the southern North Sea Basin. Low sediment accommodation rates took place during the early to middle Miocene and abruptly increased into the late Miocene. Two processes likely explain these observations. First, the long‐time (±10 Myr) slow sedimentation of fine sands with a high—in part...