The Nature and Origin of Compression in Passive Margins
Product code: SP306
Print publication date: 19/10/2008
Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Tectonics, Petroleum Geoscience and Geoenergy, Structural geology, GSL Special Publications, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862392618
Author/Edited by: Edited by H Johnson, A G Doré, R W Gatliff, R E Holdsworth, E R Lundin & J D Ritchie
Weight: 0.7kg
Number of pages: 232
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/306/1
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Product Code: SP306
Edited by H Johnson, A G Doré, R W Gatliff, R E Holdsworth, E R Lundin & J D Ritchie
Special Publication 306
Increasingly, researchers have reported that passive margins do not show a simple uninterrupted thermal sag pattern of post-rift subsidence following continental separation. Rather, the structural and stratigraphic development of such margins may record evidence of complex phases of differential subsidence, exhumation and fold development. Some of the fold structures observed on passive continental margins appear to be related to regional stresses transmitted through basement rocks, whereas others are related to gravitational sliding and toe-thrusting. This special publication concentrates on the first of these categories. The morphology and distribution of such folds, together with potential mechanisms for generation of regional stress, are described in a series of papers by authorities in the field. As well as being an enigmatic feature of passive margin geology, the compressive folds have significance in the exploration for petroleum.
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Potential mechanisms for the genesis of Cenozoic domal structures on the NE Atlantic margin: pros, cons and some new ideas, A G Doré, E R Lundin, N J Kusznir & C Pascal
Post-rift compressional reactivation potential of passive margins and extensional basins, S Cloetingh, F Beekman, P A Ziegler, J D Van Wees & D Sokoutis
Present-day stresses, seismicity and Neogene-to-Recent tectonics of Australia's 'passive' margins: intraplate deformation controlled by plate boundary forces, RR Hillis, M Sandiford, S D Reynolds & M C Quigley
Evidence for kilometre-scale Neogene exhumation driven by compressional deformation in the Irish Sea basin system, S P Holford, P F Green, J P Turner, G A Williams, R R Hillis, D R Tappin & I R Duddy
The effects of Cenozoic compression within the Faroe–Shetland Basin and adjacent areas, J D Ritchie, H Johnson, M F Quinn & R W Gatliff
Uplift, compression and the Cenozoic Faroe–Shetland sediment budget, J R Smallwood Palaeogene evolution of the Ymir and Wyville Thomson ridges, European North Atlantic Margin, H Ziska & T Varming
Compressional structures on the West Iberia rifted margin: controls on their distribution, G Péron-Pinvidic, G Manatschal, S M Dean & T A Minshull
Elastic flexure and distributed deformation along Australia's North West shelf; Neogene tectonics of the Bonaparte and Browse basins, M Keep & M Harrowfield
Fault reactivation in the Port Campbell Embayment with respect to carbon dioxide sequestration, Otway Basin, Australia, C Rogers, P J van Ruth & R R Hillis
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