Break-up and seafloor spreading domains in the NE Atlantic
Posted on 2017-01-10 - 10:54
An updated magnetic anomaly grid of the NE Atlantic and an improved database of magnetic anomaly and fracture zone identifications allow the kinematic history of this region to be revisited. At break-up time, continental rupture occurred parallel to the Mesozoic rift axes in
the south, but obliquely to the previous rifting trend in the north, probably due to the proximity of the Iceland plume at 57–54 Ma.
The new age grid is based on 30 isochrons (C) from C24n old (53.93 Ma) to C1n old (0.78 Ma), and documents ridge reorganizations in the SE Lofoten Basin, the Jan Mayen Fracture Zone region, in Iceland and offshore Faroe Islands. Updated continent–ocean boundaries, including the Jan Mayen microcontinent, and detailed kinematics of the Eocene–Present Greenland–Eurasia relative motions are included in this model.
Variations in the subduction regime in the NE Pacific could have caused the sudden northwards motion of Greenland and subsequent Eurekan deformation. These events caused seafloor spreading changes in the neighbouring Labrador Sea and a decrease in spreading rates in the NE
Atlantic. Boundaries between major oceanic crustal domains were formed when the European Plate changed its absolute motion, probably caused by successive adjustments along its southern boundary.
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Gaina, Carmen; Nasuti, Aziz; Kimbell, Geoffrey S.; Blischke, Anett (2017). Break-up and seafloor spreading domains in the NE Atlantic. Geological Society of London. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3661925.v1
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Carmen Gaina
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Aziz Nasuti
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Geoffrey S. Kimbell
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Anett Blischke