Sedimentation in the central part of the South Permian Basin (SPB) started in Rotliegend times in a huge playa system which gradually evolved into a sabkha system. Numerous marine ingressions occured in late Rotliegend times before, finally, the basin became flooded by the Zechstein sea. Those early ingressions are little understood and normally not taken into account in the existing basin models. This project aims to analyse the ingressions in a cyclostratigraphic context, mainly their sedimentology, paleontology, and their gamma ray signature in cores and wireline logs. This should lead to a better understanding of the interply of sea-level fluctuations, basin subsidence, magmatism, climatic conditions and sediment supply in a period that was crucial for the development of the SPB.
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