The western Baltic Sea, located along the northern margin of the Central European Basin System (CEBS), is a world‐class site for investigating the dynamics and stratigraphic evolution of a continental basin with marine geophysical data acquisition techniques. The universities of Aarhus and Hamburg have joined forces to investigate the post‐Permianto‐recent structural evolution of the western Baltic, with special emphasis on neotectonic re‐activation along major structural lineaments.
Deep crustal structures of the CEBS are well established from previous studies. However, no systematic and localized research has yet been carried out to investigate the neotectonic activity in this region. In fact, the limited seismic resolution of previously available data prevented detailed research on Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution or neotectonics.