London Basin

The London Basin is an elongated, roughly triangular sedimentary basin approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) long which underlies London and a large area of south east England, south eastern East Anglia and the adjacent North Sea. The basin formed as a result of extensional tectonics related to the Alpine orogeny during the Palaeogene period and was mainly active between 60 and 40 million years ago.

Read more about London Basin:  Tectonic History, Sedimentary Infill and Stratigraphy

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