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Synthetic Passive Margin Stratigraphy

AAPG Bulletin, 1984
Synthetic stratigraphic cross sections are derived mathematically for a variety of simple conditions. The variables considered in the mathematical model include variations in sea level, rate of tectonic subsidence, rate of sedimentation, and rate of erosion.
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Passive continental margin subsidence

Journal of the Geological Society, 1992
The papers in the following thematic set arise from the 1991 William Smith Lecture Meeting of the Geological Society, convened by J. M. Cubitt and held at Burlington House on 3 April 1991. The purpose of this meeting was to review our current understanding of passive margin subsidence. To this end an international cast
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Divergent/Passive Margin Basins

1989
This book discusses the detailed geology of the four divergent margin basins and establishes a set of analog scenarios which can be used for future petroleum exploration. The divergent margin basins are the Campos basin of Brazil, the Gabon basin, the Niger delta, and the basins of the northwest shelf of Australia. These four petroleum basins present a
J. D. Edwards, P. A. Santogrossi
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The Atlantic passive margin

1989
Abstract The eastern North American passive margin includes the Atlantic continental margin from the Bahamas to Baffin Bay. Formed by the rifting, breakup, and drift of North America away from Africa and Europe, the margin′s thick sedimentary cover of Mesozoic to Cenozoic age lying over the Coastal Plain, continental shelf, slope, and ...
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On Sheared Passive Continental Margins

Tectonophysics, 1979
Abstract Studies in intra-continental and intra-oceanic shear zones reveal structures that may be developed during the formation of a sheared passive continental margin. During the intra-continental shear stage of margin development, rapid vertical movement of the crust may occur resulting in small, tectonically-active basins containing thick ...
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Subduction initiation at passive margins

2010
Subduction is a key process for terrestrial plate tectonics, but its initiation is still not entirely understood. In particular, despite the abundance of both passive and active continental margins on Earth, no obvious cases of transition between them have been identified so far.
Nikolaeva, K., Gerya, Taras, Marques, F. O.   +2 more
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