Motion in the north Iceland volcanic rift zone accommodated by bookshelf faulting

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Green, Robert G., White, Robert S., Greenfield, Tim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2013
• Subjects: 02 - Geodynamics; Geophysics and Tectonics; 06 - Part-III Projects; Tilting; Iceland
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2972/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2972/1/Green_ngeo_Preprint.pdf; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2972/7/ngeo2012-f1.jpg; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2972/12/ngeo2012-s1.pdf; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/2972/13/ngeo2012-s2.xlsx; https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2012

Along mid-ocean ridges the extending crust is segmented1 on length scales of 10–1,000 km. Where rift segments are offset from one another, motion between segments is accommodated by transform faults that are oriented orthogonally to the main rift axis. Where segments overlap, non-transform offsets w...