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MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
卷 22, 期 9-10, 页码 1031-1044出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2005.01.009
关键词
Neogene; compressional tectonics; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; ocean gateway
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [bgs03002] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [bgs03002] Funding Source: UKRI
The lower Neogene stratigraphy of the NW European Atlantic margin, from the Voring to the Porcupine basins, is interpreted to record a discrete phase of compressional tectonism that spanned at least 8 Ma from the earliest to the early mid-Miocene. This compressional tectonism may be coeval with a local reorganisation of the NE Atlantic plate system with the transfer of the Jan Mayen micro-plate from Greenland to Europe. The compressional tectonics has resulted in a number of stratigraphic sequences of complex character bounded by regional base Neogene and intra-Miocene unconformities. These are traceable across a range of depths and record distortion of the basin margins and changes in deep-water circulation patterns. This episode of compressional tectonics has also resulted in the creation of a number of anticlinal domes along the Norwegian, Faroese and UK Atlantic margins. The stratigraphic and structural evidence are interpreted to record two stages in the development of the margin: the first being characterised by a prolonged period of regional flexure in response to the build-up of compressive stresses; the second stage is the development of anticlinal structures that led to a rapid release of stress. In the Wyville-Thomson-Faroes region, compressional deformation influenced the creation of the present-day deep-water conduit of the Faroe Bank Channel, which is interpreted to be an early Neogene syncline. Together, the Faroe Bank and Faroe-Shetland channels represent the deepest water passageway across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. The early Neogene development of this conduit is considered to mark the onset of deep-water exchange across this oceanic gateway. (c) 2005 M.S. Stoker. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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