The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge
International audience The breakup of Laurasia to form the Northeast Atlantic Realm disintegrated an inhomogeneous collage of cratons sutured by cross-cutting orogens. Volcanic rifted margins formed that are underlain by magma-inflated, extended continental crust. North of the Greenland-Iceland-Faro...
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:insu-03685642v1 2023-06-18T03:40:51+02:00 The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge Foulger, Gillian R. Doré, Tony Emeleus, C. Henry Franke, Dieter Geoffroy, Laurent Gernigon, Laurent Hey, Richard Holdsworth, Robert E. Hole, Malcolm Höskuldsson, Ármann Julian, Bruce Kusznir, Nick Martinez, Fernando Mccaffrey, Ken J. W. Natland, James H. Peace, Alexander L. Petersen, Kenni Schiffer, Christian Stephenson, Randell Stoker, Martyn Laboratoire Géosciences Océan (LGO) Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2020 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03685642 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926 insu-03685642 https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03685642 BIBCODE: 2020ESRv.20602926F doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926 ISSN: 0012-8252 Earth-Science Reviews https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03685642 Earth-Science Reviews, 2020, 206, ⟨10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926⟩ Atlantic Iceland Continental breakup Tectonics Icelandic-type crust SDRs Geochemistry Geophysics [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2020 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926 2023-06-05T20:32:01Z International audience The breakup of Laurasia to form the Northeast Atlantic Realm disintegrated an inhomogeneous collage of cratons sutured by cross-cutting orogens. Volcanic rifted margins formed that are underlain by magma-inflated, extended continental crust. North of the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge a new rift-the Aegir Ridge-propagated south along the Caledonian suture. South of the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge the proto-Reykjanes Ridge propagated north through the North Atlantic Craton along an axis displaced ~150 km to the west of the rift to the north. Both propagators stalled where the confluence of the Nagssugtoqidian and Caledonian orogens formed an ~300-km-wide transverse barrier. Thereafter, the ~150 × 300-km block of continental crust between the rift tips-the Iceland Microcontinent-extended in a distributed, unstable manner along multiple axes of extension. These axes repeatedly migrated or jumped laterally with shearing occurring between them in diffuse transfer zones. This style of deformation continues to the present day in Iceland. It is the surface expression of underlying magma-assisted stretching of ductile continental crust that has flowed from the Iceland Microplate and flanking continental areas to form the lower crust of the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge. Icelandic-type crust which underlies the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge is thus not anomalously thick oceanic crust as is often assumed. Upper Icelandic-type crust comprises magma flows and dykes. Lower Icelandic-type crust comprises magma-inflated continental mid- and lower crust. Contemporary magma production in Iceland, equivalent to oceanic layers 2-3, corresponds to Icelandic-type upper crust plus intrusions in the lower crust, and has a total thickness of only 10-15 km. This is much less than the total maximum thickness of 42 km for Icelandic-type crust measured seismically in Iceland. The feasibility of the structure we propose is confirmed by numerical modeling that shows extension of the continental crust can continue for ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Iceland North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Aegir Ridge ENVELOPE(-4.125,-4.125,66.167,66.167) Greenland Reykjanes ENVELOPE(-22.250,-22.250,65.467,65.467) Earth-Science Reviews 206 102926 |
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Atlantic Iceland Continental breakup Tectonics Icelandic-type crust SDRs Geochemistry Geophysics [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] Foulger, Gillian R. Doré, Tony Emeleus, C. Henry Franke, Dieter Geoffroy, Laurent Gernigon, Laurent Hey, Richard Holdsworth, Robert E. Hole, Malcolm Höskuldsson, Ármann Julian, Bruce Kusznir, Nick Martinez, Fernando Mccaffrey, Ken J. W. Natland, James H. Peace, Alexander L. Petersen, Kenni Schiffer, Christian Stephenson, Randell Stoker, Martyn The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge |
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International audience The breakup of Laurasia to form the Northeast Atlantic Realm disintegrated an inhomogeneous collage of cratons sutured by cross-cutting orogens. Volcanic rifted margins formed that are underlain by magma-inflated, extended continental crust. North of the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge a new rift-the Aegir Ridge-propagated south along the Caledonian suture. South of the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge the proto-Reykjanes Ridge propagated north through the North Atlantic Craton along an axis displaced ~150 km to the west of the rift to the north. Both propagators stalled where the confluence of the Nagssugtoqidian and Caledonian orogens formed an ~300-km-wide transverse barrier. Thereafter, the ~150 × 300-km block of continental crust between the rift tips-the Iceland Microcontinent-extended in a distributed, unstable manner along multiple axes of extension. These axes repeatedly migrated or jumped laterally with shearing occurring between them in diffuse transfer zones. This style of deformation continues to the present day in Iceland. It is the surface expression of underlying magma-assisted stretching of ductile continental crust that has flowed from the Iceland Microplate and flanking continental areas to form the lower crust of the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge. Icelandic-type crust which underlies the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge is thus not anomalously thick oceanic crust as is often assumed. Upper Icelandic-type crust comprises magma flows and dykes. Lower Icelandic-type crust comprises magma-inflated continental mid- and lower crust. Contemporary magma production in Iceland, equivalent to oceanic layers 2-3, corresponds to Icelandic-type upper crust plus intrusions in the lower crust, and has a total thickness of only 10-15 km. This is much less than the total maximum thickness of 42 km for Icelandic-type crust measured seismically in Iceland. The feasibility of the structure we propose is confirmed by numerical modeling that shows extension of the continental crust can continue for ... |
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Laboratoire Géosciences Océan (LGO) Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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Foulger, Gillian R. Doré, Tony Emeleus, C. Henry Franke, Dieter Geoffroy, Laurent Gernigon, Laurent Hey, Richard Holdsworth, Robert E. Hole, Malcolm Höskuldsson, Ármann Julian, Bruce Kusznir, Nick Martinez, Fernando Mccaffrey, Ken J. W. Natland, James H. Peace, Alexander L. Petersen, Kenni Schiffer, Christian Stephenson, Randell Stoker, Martyn |
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Foulger, Gillian R. Doré, Tony Emeleus, C. Henry Franke, Dieter Geoffroy, Laurent Gernigon, Laurent Hey, Richard Holdsworth, Robert E. Hole, Malcolm Höskuldsson, Ármann Julian, Bruce Kusznir, Nick Martinez, Fernando Mccaffrey, Ken J. W. Natland, James H. Peace, Alexander L. Petersen, Kenni Schiffer, Christian Stephenson, Randell Stoker, Martyn |
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The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge |
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The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge |
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The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge |
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The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge |
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The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge |
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iceland microcontinent and a continental greenland-iceland-faroe ridge |
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ENVELOPE(-4.125,-4.125,66.167,66.167) ENVELOPE(-22.250,-22.250,65.467,65.467) |
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Aegir Ridge Greenland Reykjanes |
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Aegir Ridge Greenland Reykjanes |
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Greenland Iceland North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic |
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Greenland Iceland North Atlantic Northeast Atlantic |
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ISSN: 0012-8252 Earth-Science Reviews https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03685642 Earth-Science Reviews, 2020, 206, ⟨10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926⟩ |
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