Three-dimensional gravity and magnetic modelling of the Irish sector of the NE Atlantic margin

Tectonophysics

Volumn 486, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 36-54

  Kimbell, G S ^a   Ritchie, J D ^a   Henderson, A F ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental margin; Gravity modelling; Ireland; Magnetic modelling; North east Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS AGE; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DENSITY VARIATIONS; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY INVERSIONS; GRAVITY MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; IRELAND; LITHOSPHERIC MODELS; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC SIGNATURES; MESOZOIC; MID-CRETACEOUS; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; OCEAN BASINS; OPTIMISATIONS; PRECAMBRIAN; SEA-BED SURVEY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC SURVEYS; VARISCAN;

BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY; SITE SELECTION; SURVEYS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DENUDATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LINEARITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC SURVEY; MESOZOIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PRECAMBRIAN; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TREND ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); HATTON BASIN; IRELAND; PORCUPINE BASIN; ROCKALL BASIN;

EID: 77952009724     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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