Tectonophysics: Plate boundary-generalInformation Related to Geographic Region: Atlantic OceanSubsidence on rifted conjugate continental margins around the North Atlantic is analyzed to derive the amount and areal distribution of stretching in the crust and in the lower lithosphere during continental rifting...
Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. Its name, derived from Greek mythology, means the ‘Sea of A
Atlantic Ocean - Exploration, Currents, Marine Life: Advances in archaeological study have strengthened claims by many scholars that various seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean ventured into the open Atlantic before 600 bce and engaged in some transat
Mid-ocean ridges are large central rift valleys surrounded by mountain ranges created by tectonic forces along divergent plate boundary lines. Divergent plate boundaries exist between plates that are spreading apart from each other. This occurs due to convection currents in the mantle rising and ...
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a prominent underwater mountain range that extends along the center of the Atlantic Ocean from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south. It marks a divergent plate boundary, where the Eurasian, North American, South American, African, and Ant...
Iribarren, L., Verge´s, J., Camurri, F., Fullea, J., and Ferna`ndez, M.: The structure of the Atlantic-Mediterranean transition zone from the Alboran Sea to the Horseshoe Abyssal plain (Iberia-Africa Plate Boundary), Marine Geology, 243, 97-119, 2007....
The mean dynamic topography of the surface of the North Atlantic is estimated using an inverse model of the ocean circulation constrained by hydrographic and altimetric observations. This estimate is used to compute a ge oid height correction over the North Atlantic that is consistent with both the...
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and the longest mountain range in the world. It separates the Eurasian Plate and North American Plate in the North Atlantic, and the African Plate from the...
This data documentation discusses the procedures and methods used to measure total carbon dioxide (TCO), total alkalinity (TALK), and pH at hydrographic stations during the R/V Hesperides oceanographic cruise in the Atlantic Ocean (Section A5). Conducted as part of the Work Ocean Circulation Exper...
The timing of basin formation is broadly coeval with depositional changes at the Danian-Selandian boundary around the other margins of Greenland, including the North Sea, implying a common tectonic driving force. Furthermore, these stratigraphic tie points place age constraints on regional plate ...