Improvements in seismic imaging, computing capabilities, and analytical methods, as well
as a number of industry deep-water wells sampling distal offshore settings, have …

Magma-poor rifted margins are being increasingly recognized in present-day Atlantic-type
systems. However, findings of fossil areas floored by exhumed mantle or hyper-extended …

Abstract The Bay of Biscay and the Pyrenees correspond to a Lower Cretaceous rift system
including both oceanic and hyperextended rift domains. The transition from preserved …

Thirty years of research, and especially the refinements of many geological, geochemical
and geophysical techniques, have uncovered many new facets of the geology of the …

We combine a geological, geochemical and tectonic dataset from 118 ophiolite complexes
of the major global Phanerozoic orogenic belts with similar datasets of ophiolites from 111 …

Rock rheology and density have first‐order effects on the lithosphere's response to plate
tectonic forces at plate boundaries. Changes in these rock properties are controlled by …

An increasing number of field examples in mountain belts show that the formation of passive
margins during extreme continent thinning may occur under conditions of high to very high …

We present a global synthesis of the geochemistry of intermediate to silicic intrusive and
volcanic rocks from 149 Phanerozoic to Archean ophiolites, and evaluate models for their …

Abstract The origin of Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) associated with continental breakup
and the reconstruction of continents older than ca. 320 million years (pre‐Pangea) are …

We use the Bay of Biscay and Western Pyrenees as a natural laboratory to develop and
apply an approach to characterize and identify distinctive rifted margin domains in offshore …