Evidence for an early Permian oceanic rift in the northern North Atlantic

• Main Authors: Russell, M.J., Smythe, D.K.
• Other Authors: Neumann, E.-R., Ramberg, I.B.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 1978
• Subjects: Greenland; Norway; Norwegian Sea; Rockall Trough; Rosemary Bank; Svalbard; East Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/213908/

The Greenland-Svalbard and Proto-Bay of Biscay fault zones are small circles to a common pole, and it can be shown that transform motion on these faults opens the Rockall Trough and the eastern Norwegian Sea. Arthaud and Matte calculate a dextral movement along the Proto-Bay of Biscay fault of more...