Response of a multi-domain continental margin to compression: Study from seismic reflection-refraction and numerical modelling in the Tagus Abyssal Plain

Tectonophysics

Volumn 468, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 113-130

  Neves, M C ^a   Terrinha, P ^b   Afilhado, A ^c   Moulin, M ^d   Matias, L ^e   Rosas, F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b INETI   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^e FCUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Deep structure; FEM modelling; Seismostratigraphy; Tectonic inversion of rifted margin; West Iberia Margin

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL PLAINS; COMPRESSIVE DEFORMATIONS; CONCENTRATION OF; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CONTINENTAL SLOPES; DEEP CRUSTAL STRUCTURES; DEEP STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION STRUCTURES; FAULT PATTERNS; FEM MODELLING; FINITE ELEMENTS; FRICTIONAL STRENGTHS; GEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS; LONG WAVELENGTHS; MIOCENE; MULTI DOMAINS; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLATE CURVATURES; RIFT BASINS; RIFTED CONTINENTAL MARGINS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES; SEDIMENT LOADINGS; SEISMIC DATUM; SEISMIC LINES; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SEISMOSTRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS; SUB DOMAINS; SURROUNDING REGIONS; TORE-MADEIRA RISE; VERTICAL MOVEMENTS; WEST IBERIA MARGIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINGUISTICS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REFRACTION; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSION TECTONICS; MIOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; RHEOLOGY; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MARGIN; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MADEIRA-TORE RISE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAGUS BASIN;

EID: 62549126883     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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