Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the Tjörnes Fracture Zone, Northern Iceland

• Main Author: Fenwick, Rebecca Ann
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2010
• Subjects: UCSD Dissertations; Academic Earth sciences. (Discipline); Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge; Skjálfandi; Tjörnes; Grímsey; Grimsey; Húsavík; Iceland; Flatey
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9j26833d; http://n2t.net/ark:/20775/bb6144634c

Rifted margins and plate boundary tectonics dominate the surface morphology of the ocean basins, in particular the processes that occur in rifted margins and transform fault zones remain poorly understood. Northern Iceland is an ideal area to investigate distributed extensional deformation and the e...