The opening of the Equatorial and South Atlantic Oceans is still a matter of debate,
particularly as concerns the locations of the intraplate deformation. We propose here a …

We present a revised model for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean founded on a
remapping of the continent—ocean boundaries and Aptian salt basins, the chronology of …

The thinning of passive continental margins is usually explained by models using pure
stretching or simple shear. These models imply hypothetical extensional structures and …

Deep penetration multichannel reflection and Ocean Bottom Seismometer wide-angle
seismic data from the Congo—Angola margin were collected in 2000 during the ZaïAngo …

TAIGER project deep-penetration seismic reflection profiles acquired in the northeastern
South China Sea (SCS) provide a detailed view of the crustal structure of a very wide rifted …

Synrift stratigraphy and the distribution of breakup‐related erosional unconformities vary
vastly between passive margins and cannot be explained by classical rifting models. Here …

Thanks to a continuous effort for unravelling geological records since the early days of coal
and petroleum exploration and water management, the architecture and chrono-litho …

The conjugate margins system of the Gulf of Lion and West Sardinia (GLWS) represents a
unique natural laboratory for addressing fundamental questions about rifting due to its …

Despite favourable gravitational instability and ridge-push, elastic and frictional forces
prevent subduction initiation from arising spontaneously at passive margins. Here, we argue …

Abstract The Santos and Campos basins, offshore southeastern Brazil, contain layered
evaporite sequences (LES) deposited during the Late Aptian, marking the end of lacustrine …