Self-consistent strain rate and heat flow modelling of lithospheric extension: Application to Newfoundland-Iberia conjugate margins

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 247-256

  Crosby, A G ^a,b   White, N J ^a   Edwards, G R ^b   Shillington, D J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Basin modelling; Iberia; Lithosphere; Margins; Newfoundland; Stretching

Indexed keywords

BASIN MODELLING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEEPWATER; EXTENDED PARTS; HEAT FLOWS; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; IBERIA; INVERSE MODELLING; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC EXTENSION; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; NEWFOUNDLANDS; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SYN-RIFT; WATER DEPTH;

FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROCARBONS; SUBSIDENCE;

STRAIN RATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FLOW MODELING; HEAT FLOW; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRAIN RATE; SUBSIDENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CANADA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77955478691     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-901     Document Type: Article

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