| Following the intrusion of basic dykes in the late Palacocene, the whole of the post-Zechstein succession was gently folded into a series of major synclines and anticlines. |
| A series of transverse anticlines and synclines are observed that have axes orientated NE-SW, approximately perpendicular to the fault zone. |
| Large-scale geological structures including anticlines, synclines, thrusts and faults formed during the Caledonian Orogeny typically trend in a SW-NE direction. |
| It is possible that faulting along the crests of deep-seated anticlines provide the conduit for mobile muds to migrate through to the seafloor surface. |
| In the process, domes, cavities, faults and anticlines were created. |
| It has been previously reported that because of extension of the outer arc of such anticlines, graben form above their crests. |
