… as a combination of lithospheric stretching and cooling, assuming a homogeneous
continental crust. Are these models too simplistic? Why do we have the Atlantic rifts and margins …

… -Cretaceous and Maastrichtian-Paleocene NE Atlantic rift episodes. In addition, plate
reconstructions … The NE Atlantic rift system developed as a result of a series of rift episodes from …

… Atlantic-type margins which are also often called passive or divergent continental margins. …
This course is focusing on the US Atlantic margin, and only occasionally we will refer to …

… North of the Central Equatorial Atlantic, the continental margins can be subdivided into …
Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), extends north of the Equatorial Atlantic transform margins …

… This work presents an overview of the rift architecture of the South Atlantic and North
Atlantic margins and compares their geological evolution with the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden …

… understanding of the spatio-temporal dynamics of continental margin formation. The South
… For the equatorial Atlantic rift, we evaluated syn-rift phase onset times between 140 Ma and …

… In this study we compare three pairs of conjugate rifted margins that are often referred to as
archetypes of rift systems. Despite numerous differences, a remarkable first-order structural …

… I compare the crustal velocity structure of oceanic crust found adjacent to the continental
margins of the North Atlantic with the standard for normal oceanic crust derived from the …

… This map is a representative illustration of the current state of knowledge and debate for
well-studied margins. The continental margin was taken from Austin and Uchupi [1982] for …

… margin was an active plate boundary. Only during the subsidence phase is an Atlantic-type
margin actually a passive continental margin (… basement on the margin limits our knowledge …