Hotspot tracks and the early rifting of the Atlantic

• Published in: Tectonophysics
• Main Author: Morgan, Jason W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 1983
• Subjects: Greenland; St. Helena
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/46858/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/46858/1/morgan.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(83)90013-6

Many hotspot tracks appear to become the locus of later rifting, as though the heat of the hotspot weakens the lithosphere and tens of millions of years later the continents are split along these weakened lines. Examples are the west coast of Greenland-east coast of Labrador (Madeira hotspot), the s...