Cenozoic postrift domal uplift of North Atlantic margins: An asthenospheric diapirism model

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 901-904

  Rohrman, Max ^b   Van Der Beek, Peter ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL EROSION; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; MODEL-BASED OPC; PARTIAL MELTING; RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITIES; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SOUTHERN NORWAY; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; NORTH ATLANTIC; RIFTED MARGINS; UNITED KINGDOM;

OCEANOGRAPHY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIAPIRISM; PARTIAL MELTING; RIFTING; SALT DOME; SALT TECTONICS; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT; ASTHENOSPHERIC DIAPIRISM; DOMAL UPLIFT; NEOGENE; NEOTECTONICS; RIFTED MARGIN;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FINNMARK; NORWAY; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; UNITED KINGDOM; (NORTH); ATLANTIC; UK;

EID: 0030432828     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0901:CPDUON>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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