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TI Opening of the central Atlantic Ocean: Implications for geometric rifting and asymmetric initial seafloor spreading after continental breakup
BT 
AF BIARI, Youssef
   KLINGELHOEFER, Frauke
   SAHABI, Mohamed
   FUNCK, T.
   BENABDELLOUAHED, Massinissa
   SCHNABEL, M.
   REICHERT, C.
   GUTSCHER, M-A
   BRONNER, Adrien
   AUSTIN, J. A.
AS 1:1,2,3,4;2:1;3:2;4:5;5:3;6:6;7:6;8:3;9:1;10:7;
FF 1:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;2:PDG-REM-GM-LAD;3:;4:;5:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;6:;7:;8:;9:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;10:;
C1 IFREMER, Dept Marine Geosci, Plouzane, France.
   Univ Chouaib Doukkali, Lab Geosci Marines & Sci Sols URAC 4, Fac Sci, El Jadida, Morocco.
   Inst Univ Europeen Mer, UMR Lab Geosci Ocean 6538, Plouzane, France.
   Europole Mediterraneen Arbois, Ctr Europeen Rech & Enseignement Geosci Environm, Aix En Provence, France.
   GEUS Geol Survey Denmark & Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark.
   Geozentrum Hannover, Bundesanstalt Geowissensch & Rohstoffe, Hannover, Germany.
   Univ Texas Austin, Inst Geophys, John A & Katherine G Jackson Sch Geosci, Austin, TX USA.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV CHOUAIB DOUKKALI, MOROCCO
   UBO, FRANCE
   CEREGE, FRANCE
   GEUS, DENMARK
   GEOZENTRUM HANNOVER, GERMANY
   UNIV TEXAS AUSTIN, USA
SI BREST
SE PDG-REM-GM-LGS
   PDG-REM-GM-LAD
UM LGO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 3.583
TC 39
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00389/50072/50666.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MIRROR1
BO L'Atalante
DE ;deep structure;plate reconstruction;wide-angle seismic;passive margins
AB Study of the deep structure of conjugate passive continental margins combined with detailed plate kinematic reconstructions can provide constraints on the mechanisms of rifting and formation of initial oceanic crust. In this study the central Atlantic conjugate margins are compared based on compilation of wide-angle seismic profiles from NW Africa Nova Scotian and U.S. passive margins. The patterns of volcanism, crustal thickness, geometry, and seismic velocities in the transition zone suggest symmetric rifting followed by asymmetric oceanic crustal accretion. Conjugate profiles in the southern central Atlantic image differences in the continental crustal thickness. While profiles on the eastern U.S. margin are characterized by thick layers of magmatic underplating, no such underplate was imaged along the African continental margin. In the north, two wide-angle seismic profiles acquired in exactly conjugate positions show that the crustal geometry of the unthinned continental crust and the necking zone are nearly symmetric. A region including seismic velocities too high to be explained by either continental or oceanic crust is imaged along the Canadian side, corresponding on the African side to an oceanic crust with slightly elevated velocities. These might result from asymmetric spreading creating seafloor by faulting the existing lithosphere on the Canadian side and the emplacement of magmatic oceanic crust including pockets of serpentinite on the Moroccan margin. After isochron M25, a large-scale plate reorganization might then have led to an increase in spreading velocity and the production of thin magmatic crust on both sides. 
PY 2017
PD JUL
SO Tectonics
SN 0278-7407
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 36
IS 6
UT 000405577900007
BP 1129
EP 1150
DI 10.1002/2017TC004596
ID 50072
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