The nature and origin of compression in passive margins

Johnson, Howard; Dore, T.G.; Gatliff, Robert; Holdsworth, R.W.; Lundin, E.R.; Ritchie, Derek, eds. 2008 The nature and origin of compression in passive margins. London, UK, Geological Society of London, 220pp. (Special publications, 306).

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Abstract/Summary

Increasingly, researchers have reported that passive margins do not show a simple uninterrupted thermal sag pattern of post-rift subsidence following continental separation. Rather, the structural and stratigraphic development of such margins may record evidence of complex phases of differential subsidence, exhumation and fold development. Some of the fold structures observed on passive continental margins appear to be related to regional stresses transmitted through basement rocks, whereas others are related to gravitational sliding and toe-thrusting. This special publication concentrates on the first of these categories. The morphology and distribution of such folds, together with potential mechanisms for generation of regional stress, are described in a series of papers by authorities in the field. As well as being an enigmatic feature of passive margin geology, the compressive folds have significance in the exploration for petroleum.

Item Type:	Publication - Book
Programmes:	BGS Programmes > Other
ISBN:	9781862392618
Additional Keywords:	Tectonics, Continental margins, Petrology, Conservative plate margins
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	20 Nov 2008 13:29 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/4911

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