The Tectonics, sedimentation and palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic Region

Cover......Page 1
Front matter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Extensional tectonics in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore
Newfoundland: implications for the timing of break-up
between Grand Banks and Iberia......Page 9
Sequence stratigraphic response to Aptian-Albian rifting in
conjugate margin basins: a comparison of the Jeanne d'Arc Basin,
offshore Newfoundland, and the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland......Page 37
Early Tertiary evolution and sequence stratigraphy of the Faeroe-
Shetland Basin: implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity......Page 58
The formation of passive margins: constraints from the crustal structure
and segmentation of the deep Galicia margin, Spain......Page 77
Detachment tectonics during Atlantic rifting: analysis and
interpretation of the S reflection, the west Galicia margin......Page 98
Seismic investigation of the Faeroe basalts and their substratum......Page 115
Seismic stratigraphy of the Bill Bailey and Lousy Bank area:
implications for subsidence history......Page 128
Effect of Eocene-Miocene Compression Structures on Bottom-Water
Currents in the Faeroe-RockaH Area......Page 143
The relationship between the distribution of Tertiary sediments, tectonic
processes and deep-water circulation around the Faeroe Islands......Page 146
The influence of glacigenic sedimentation on slope-apron development
on the continental margin off Northwest Britain......Page 160
Petrography and biostratigraphy of Palaeogene volcaniclastic
sediments dredged from the F aeroes shelf......Page 179
Evolution of a major oceanographic pathway: the equatorial atlantic......Page 196
Tertiary compression structures in the Faeroe-Rockall area......Page 211
Pliocene-Pleistocene radiolarian biostratigraphy and
palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic......Page 213
The tephrochronology and radiocarbon dating of North Atlantic,
Late-Quaternary sediments: an example from the St. Kilda Basin......Page 222
Tertiary structuration and erosion of the Inner Moray Firth......Page 244
Palaeobathymetric reconstruction on a gridded database: the northern
North Atlantic and southern Greenland-lceland-Norwegian sea......Page 265
Index......Page 297
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