Editors comment and requested technical corrections on 2nd submission.

I have reviewed the revised manuscript, and the author’s responses to both reviews. I find that all the comments made by reviewers were addressed in the revision, which is improved as a consequence. Refining the number of figures was particularly appreciated.

In reading the revised manuscript I identified a few minor typographic errors that will need to be amended before we can finally accept the paper, as follows;

L17. ‘…foreland basins because some/many of them contain deep aquifers…’
L19-20. ‘… below 3k are primarily hosted in interconnected fractures and constrained by faults.’
L22. ‘Such deformation patterns show that these basins were subject…’
L36.’ …evolution of part of this basin proximal to the …’
L53. ‘This is widely accepted…’
L60. ‘…in a NW-direction…’
L77. ‘…was dominated by a coastal to shallow-marine…’
L234. Revert to the original ‘…exhibits reverse fault geometry…’. The normal faults are treated in the second phrase of this sentence.
L240. ‘…dip more steeply – 65 to 70.’
L245. ‘…twice those of the reverse…’
L309. ‘…which indicates a paleostress change…’
L364.Here, please briefly summarise the evidence presented in the cited references for overpressure in he Rupelian sequence.
L411. ‘The former case is confirmed in [or confined to] the Unterhaching…’
L429-430. ‘…produces a local contractional… reaches a favourable angle with the bedding, eventually resulting in slip.’
L443. ‘Such a reflection pattern must…’
L473. ‘… hindering the faults’ interaction with the free surface.’
L515. Deckers (2015)
L537. ‘The seismic data are not publicly accessible.’
P20-22. Remove these uncited references from the bibliography: Drews et al. (2018), Jackson and Rotevatn, (20130), Jin et al., (1995), Tavarnelli and Peacock, (1999).
Figure 3. Is it possible to display all three parts on one page?
Figure 5. Enlarge font in the small labels ‘ Top Chattian’ etc… and also the axis labels slightly.
Figures 6, 7, 8. Enlarge font in all axis labels and within the figures. This is just too small and larger text would not obscure details of the figures.

Dear authors,

I am pleased to let you know that your manuscript is accepted for publication in Solid Earth, pending a number of technical corrections. Please find the list of corrections in the report by the Topical Editor, Prof Virginia Toy. These include typographic errors, uncited references, and figure adjustments.

Thank you for submitting your work with Solid Earth.

With best wishes,
Susanne Buiter