The Iceland Microcontinent and a continental Greenland-Iceland-Faroe Ridge

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...

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Published in:Earth-Science Reviews
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Atlantic
Continental breakup
Geochemistry
Geophysics
Iceland
Icelandic-type crust
SDRs
Tectonics
Aegir Ridge
Greenland
Indian
Reykjanes
Davis Strait
North Atlantic
Northeast Atlantic
Online Access:https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/the-iceland-microcontinent-and-a-continental-greenlandicelandfaroe-ridge(ec533514-bb5a-4a3e-b4fc-22a1fc3eebda).html
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102926
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