The Structural Evolution of the Faroe Islands, NE Atlantic Margin

• Main Author: WALKER, RICHARD,JAMES
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: NE Atlantic margin; Faroe Islands; Faults in basalt; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/134/; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/134/1/Richard_Walker_PhD_Thesis_2010_-_The_Structural_Evolution_of_the_Faroe_Islands_NE_Atlantic_Margin.pdf

The NE Atlantic margin plays host to numerous basins, developed in phases from the Devono-Carboniferous through to the Cenozoic, which record the build up to plate separation and formation of the North Atlantic Ocean. Existing models for this invoke broadly NW-SE extension within the basins, which a...