Evolution of the Newfoundland-Iberia conjugate rifted margins

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 214-226

  Crosby, Alistair ^a   White, Nicky ^a   Edwards, Glyn ^b   Shillington, Donna J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

continental margins; inversion; paleobathymetry; rheology; strain rate; stretching

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; INVERSE MODELING; INVERSION; INVERSION ALGORITHMS; MAGMATISM; NEWFOUNDLAND; PALEOBATHYMETRY; RHEOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY BASINS; STRETCHING; SYN-RIFT; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; WATER DEPTHS;

HISTORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SUBSIDENCE;

STRAIN RATE;

ALGORITHM; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; INVERSION TECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; RIFTING; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRAIN RATE; SUBSIDENCE;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 49349110230     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.06.039     Document Type: Article

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