Differential spreading along the NE Atlantic ridge system and post-breakup deformation of the adjacent continental margins

• Main Author: Le Breton, Eline
• Other Authors: Géosciences Rennes (GR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Rennes (OSUR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Université Rennes 1, Peter R. Cobbold et Olivier Dauteuil([e-mail])
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: Atlantique Nord-Est; accrétion océanique; microcontinent de Jan Mayen; zones de fracture; réactivation; compression; marge européenne; Great Glen Fault : panache mantellique islandais; NE Atlantic; seafloor spreading; Jan Mayen microcontinent; fracture zones; european margin; Great Glen fault; Iceland plume; [SDU.STU.TE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Tectonics; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Aegir Ridge; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Jan Mayen Fracture Zone; Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge; Reykjanes; East Greenland; Iceland
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00714418; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00714418/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00714418/file/THESE_LeBreton.pdf

M&émoire de Géosciences-Rennes n°141, 315 p., ISBN : 2-914375-82-4 One of the main assumptions of the theory of plate tectonics is that all lithospheric plates are rigid. However, reconstructions of the opening of the NE Atlantic Ocean, on the basis of two rigid plates (Eurasia and Greenland), l...