Evolution of deep-water rifted margins: Testing depth-dependent extensional models

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Crosby, A G ^a,b   White, N J ^a   Edwards, G R H ^a,b   Thompson, M ^a   Corfield, R ^a   MacKay, L ^a  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEEPWATER; FUNCTION OF TIME; GENERALIZED INVERSE; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; NEWFOUNDLANDS; STRAIN RATE HISTORY; SYN-RIFT; THICK LAYERS;

STRAIN RATE;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THINNING; DATA ACQUISITION; DEEP SEISMIC SOUNDING; DEPTH DETERMINATION; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRAIN RATE;

ANGOLA; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; BRAZIL; CANADA; IBERIAN PENINSULA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 79551621676     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002687     Document Type: Article

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