From microcontinents to extensional allochthons: Witnesses of how continents rift and break apart

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-197

  Péron Pinvidic, Gwenn ^a   Manatschal, Gianreto ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

Allochton; H block; Margin; Microcontinent; North Atlantic; Rifting

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHONS; BUILDING STONE; CONTINENTAL BLOCKS; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MANTLE; CONTROLLING PROCESS; CRUSTAL BLOCK; DEEP SEA DRILLING; DEEPWATER; HIGH QUALITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PARADIGM SHIFTS; RIFT STRUCTURE; SEISMIC IMAGE; SEISMIC SURVEYS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALLOCHTHON; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RIFTING; RUPTURE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77955497072     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-903     Document Type: Article

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