Episodic Cenozoic tectonism and the development of the NW European 'passive' continental margin

• Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology
• Main Authors: Praeg, D., Stoker, M.S., Shannon, P.M., Ceramicola, S., Hjelstuen, B., Laberg, J.S., Mathiesen, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2005
• Subjects: Norway; Tilting; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17796/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02648172

The North Atlantic margins are archetypally passive, yet they have experienced post-rift vertical movements of up to kilometre scale. The Cenozoic history of such movements along the NW European margin, from Ireland to mid-Norway, is examined by integrating published analyses of uplift and subsidenc...