Structural inheritance in the North Atlantic

C Schiffer, AG Doré, GR Foulger, D Franke… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The North Atlantic, extending from the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone to the north
Norway-Greenland-Svalbard margins, is regarded as both a classic case of structural …

The Iceland microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe ridge

GR Foulger, T Doré, CH Emeleus, D Franke… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The breakup of Laurasia to form the Northeast Atlantic Realm disintegrated an
inhomogeneous collage of cratons sutured by cross-cutting orogens. Volcanic rifted margins …

A global data set of present‐day oceanic crustal age and seafloor spreading parameters

M Seton, RD Müller, S Zahirovic… - Geochemistry …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present an updated oceanic crustal age grid and a set of complementary grids including
spreading rate, asymmetry, direction, and obliquity. Our data set is based on a selected set …

Zealandia: Earth's hidden continent

N Mortimer, HJ Campbell, AJ Tulloch, PR King… - GSA today, 2017 - archimer.ifremer.fr
A 4.9 Mkm2 region of the southwest Pacific Ocean is made up of continental crust. The
region has elevated bathymetry relative to surrounding oceanic crust, diverse and silica-rich …

Kinematic evolution of the southern North Atlantic: Implications for the formation of hyperextended rift systems

M Nirrengarten, G Manatschal, J Tugend, N Kusznir… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We focus on the southern North Atlantic rifted margins to investigate the partitioning and
propagation of deformation in hyperextended rift systems using plate kinematic modeling …

Rift-induced disruption of cratonic keels drives kimberlite volcanism

TM Gernon, SM Jones, S Brune, TK Hincks, MR Palmer… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Kimberlites are volatile-rich, occasionally diamond-bearing magmas that have erupted
explosively at Earth's surface in the geologic past,–. These enigmatic magmas, originating …

The fundamental role of the Borborema and Benin–Nigeria provinces of NE Brazil and NW Africa during the development of the South Atlantic Cretaceous Rift system

RMD de Matos, A Krueger, I Norton, K Casey - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Borborema and Benin–Nigeria Provinces are composed of a complex network
of Neoproterozoic mobile belts, and large-scale shear zones. The evolution of the South …

Reappraisal of the magma-rich versus magma-poor rifted margin archetypes

J Tugend, M Gillard, G Manatschal… - Geological Society …, 2020 - lyellcollection.org
Rifted margins are commonly defined as magma-poor or magma-rich archetypes based on
their morphology. We re-examine the prevailing model inferred from this classification that …

Formation of continental microplates through rift linkage: Numerical modeling and its application to the Flemish Cap and Sao Paulo Plateau

D Neuharth, S Brune, A Glerum… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Continental microplates are enigmatic plate boundary features, which can occur in
extensional and compressional regimes. Here we focus on microplate formation and their …

被动大陆边缘盆地油气勘探新进展与展望

朱伟林, 崔旱云, 吴培康, 孙和风 - 石油学报, 2017 - syxb-cps.com.cn
2006 年以来被动大陆边缘盆地已成为全球油气储量的主要增长区. 通过统计分析被动大陆边缘
盆地的勘探趋势, 系统总结了被动大陆边缘盆地的地质进展, 阐述了主要盆地的油气分布基本 …