Origin of anomalous Tertiary subsidence adjacent to North Atlantic continental margins

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 702-714

  Hall, Ben D ^a   White, Nicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

lithospheric stretching; North Atlantic margins; Tertiary subsidence

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRETCHING; RIFTING; SUBSIDENCE; TERTIARY;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

BASALT; IGNEOUS ROCKS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; SETTLING TANKS;

LITHOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC STRETCHING; MAGMATISM; NORTH ATLANTIC MARGINS; TERTIARY SUBSIDENCE;

SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 0028669764     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0264-8172(94)90024-8     Document Type: Article

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