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• Main Authors: J. J. Armitage, T. J. Henstock, T A. Minshull
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Sion; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.655.6118; http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/66801/1/jjarmitage-submitted.pdf

Abstract. Rifted margins form from extension and breakup of the con-tinental lithosphere. If this extension is coeval with a region of hotter litho-sphere, then it is generally assumed that a volcanic margin would follow. Here we present the results of numerical simulations of rift margin evolution...