--> Figure 17. Schematic diagram in a passive margin basin. Most of the tectonic stress is transmitted through the basement and the well cemented sedimentary rocks. In the case of ice loading the strain rates are relatively high and the response in sediments will be mostly mechanical compaction. Gravitational stress may however be important (modified after Bjørlykke, 2006, Geological Society Special Publication, No. 253).

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Figure 17. Schematic diagram in a passive margin basin. Most of the tectonic stress is transmitted through the basement and the well cemented sedimentary rocks. In the case of ice loading the strain rates are relatively high and the response in sediments will be mostly mechanical compaction. Gravitational stress may however be important (modified after Bjørlykke, 2006, Geological Society Special Publication, No. 253).