Transition from symmetry to asymmetry during continental rifting: An example from the Bight Basin-Terre Adélie (Australian and Antarctic conjugate margins)

• Published in: Terra Nova
• Main Authors: Espurt, N., Callot, Jean-Paul, Roure, F., Totterdell, J.M., Struckmeyer, H.I.M., Vially, R.
• Other Authors: Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes et leurs Réservoirs (LFCR), TOTAL FINA ELF-Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: continental lithosphere; Cretaceous; deformation; detachment fault; exhumation; Jurassic; passive margin; plate tectonics; rifting; Adelie Coast; Antarctica; Australia; Bight Basin; East Antarctica; Indian Ocean; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Antarctic; Indian; Terre Adélie; Terre-Adélie; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00872289; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01055.x

International audience The rifting history of the magma-poor conjugate margins of Australia and Antarctica is still a controversial issue. In this article, we present a model for lithosphere-scale rifting and deformation history from initial Jurassic rifting to Late Cretaceous breakup for the conjug...