1988. Taphonomic comparison of passive and active continental margins: Neogene shell beds of the Atlantic Coast Plain and northern Gulf of California. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeo- ecology 63:201-
Rifting and subsidence on passive continental margins in the North East Atlantic. Nature, Lond., 268, 305-9.Montadert, L., et al., 1977, Rifting and subsidence on passive continental margins in the North East Atlantic: Nature, v. 268, p. 305-309....
s to relatively few in continental shelves; (3) sequence boundaries appear to be best defined on slopes or in regions of active tectonic tilting; and (4) limitations in the sequence analysis technique preclude its use in predictive stratigraphy, especially in shelf and slope regions of margins....
The initial thermal structure of the oceanic and continental lithosphere was calculated from the half-space cooling model83, assuming a thermal diffusivity of 10−6 m2 s−1. An 80–40 Ma oceanic lithosphere (80 Ma for the left side and 40 Ma for the right side) was defined,...
along with the reactivation of crustal rift-inherited faults and shear zones cutting through previously thinned crustal sectors. The inversion of the deeply rooted normal faults as crustal thrust ramps could relate to the inherited thinning of the ductile parts of the continental crust, and the mecha...
Reconstructions constrained by data from the Africa-Iberia margins have: 1) Early to Middle Jurassic oblique rifting which gave way to transtensional rifting; 2) Middle to Late Jurassic onset of sub-continental mantle exhumation or formation of oceanic crust in a setting dominated by transcurrence...
Passive continental margins are much less active tectonically than active continental margins where subduction is occurring. Nevertheless, significant amounts of vertical displacements occur on the boundary faults after the formation of a passive margin at a rift valley. As a result high stress levels ...
Subduction leads to voluminous arc magmatism at active continental margins; however, the potential far‐field geodynamic connections with coeval magmatism along opposing passive margins, are rarely investigated. Here we report large‐scale and parallel mafic dike swarms on the South Qinling passive margin...
Chiu JK, Liu CS (2008) Comparison of sediment processes on adjacent passive and active continental margins offshore of southwest Taiwan based on echo character studies. Basin Res 20:503–518Chiu, J-K, Liu, C-S (2008) Comparison of sedimentary processes on adjacent passive and active ...
P. Meyer ( 1979 ), Explosion seismology studies of active and passive continental margins , in Geological and Geophysical Investigation of Continental Margins , edited by J. S. Watkins et al., AAPG Mem. , 29 , 443 – 451 .Vail P R,Mitchum Jr R M.Globalcycles of relative changes of ...