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Rifting, lithosphere breakup and volcanism: Comparison of magma-poor and volcanic rifted margins
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In this paper, a detailed description of rift-onset and breakup unconformities is presented for the three continental margins that evolved in the Early Cretaceous, the Paleocene and the Oligocene, respectively.About:
This article is published in Marine and Petroleum Geology.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 426 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Volcanic passive margin & Passive margin.read more
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Sedimentation and potential venting on the rifted continental margin of Dronning Maud Land
TL;DR: In this paper, two types of canyons are defined based on their axial dimensions and originated from turbidity currents and slope failures during glacial/fluvial transport in Dronning Maud Land.
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Tectonic variation and structural evolution of the West Greenland continental margin
TL;DR: In this paper, a seismic interpretation study of representative two-dimensional reflection profiles from the Labrador Sea, Davis Strait, and Baffin Bay was undertaken to identify sedimentary and structural components to elucidate the tectonic development of the margin.
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Crustal structure beneath the east side of Pearl River Estuary from onshore-offshore seismic experiment
TL;DR: The land-sea transition zone in the northern South China Sea (SCS) records important information from the continental rifting to the seafloor spreading as mentioned in this paper, and the crustal structure is the key to explore this region.
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Transition from amagmatic to volcanic margin: Mantle exhumation in the Vøring Basin before the Icelandic plume influence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the link between tectonics, serpentinization and magmatism in the Norwegian margin from the Ryazanian-Valanginian to the Palaeocene-Eocene magmatic breakup.
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Rifting and Salt Deposition on Continental Margins: Differences and Similarities Between the Red Sea and the South Atlantic Sedimentary Basins
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss alternative interpretations for syn-rift successions and salt distribution in regional seismic profiles from the Red Sea, which have been integrated with results of wells that penetrated the stratigraphic section below the evaporites in a few exploratory wells along the Arabian and African conjugate margins.
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Nature and composition of the continental crust: A lower crustal perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a three-layer crust consisting of upper, middle, and lower crust is divided into type sections associated with different tectonic provinces, in which P wave velocities increase progressively with depth and there is a large variation in average P wave velocity of the lower crust between different type sections.
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A Geologic Time Scale 2004
TL;DR: Gradstein et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a chronostratigraphy approach for linking time and rock in the context of geologic time scales, including the geomagnetic polarity time scale and stable isotope geochronology.
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Magmatism at rift zones: The generation of volcanic continental margins and flood basalts
Robert S. White,Dan McKenzie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the production of magmatically active rifted margins and the effusion of flood basalts onto the adjacent continents can be explained by a simple model of rifting above a thermal anomaly in the underlying mantle.
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Convection Plumes in the Lower Mantle
TL;DR: The concept of crustal plate motion over mantle hotspots has been advanced to explain the origin of the Hawaiian and other island chains and the origin the Walvis, Iceland-Farroe and other aseismic ridges as discussed by the authors.
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