Variations in amount and direction of seafloor spreading along the northeast Atlantic Ocean and resulting deformation of the continental margin of northwest Europe

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Le Breton, E ^a,b   Cobbold, P R ^a   Dauteuil, O ^a   Lewis, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Chevron Onshore Europe   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; RESTORATION; TECTONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENOZOIC; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EARLY OLIGOCENE; FRACTURE ZONE; GREENLAND; ICELANDS; INVERSION STRUCTURES; LATE EOCENE; LATE OLIGOCENE; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; MANTLE PLUME; MIOCENE; NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN MARGIN; OLIGOCENE; RELATIVE ROTATION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

CENOZOIC; COMPRESSION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MANTLE PLUME; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBMARINE RIDGE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); EUROPE; GREENLAND; JAN MAYEN; KOLBEINSEY RIDGE; MOHNS RIDGE; NORWEGIAN MARGIN [NORWEGIAN SEA]; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

AMBLEMA PLICATA;

EID: 84867635119     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC003087     Document Type: Article

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