Wide angle converted shear wave analysis of a North Atlantic volcanic rifted continental margin: Constraint on sub-basalt lithology

• Main Authors: Eccles, JD, White, RS, Robert, AW, Christie, PAF, Kusznir, NJ, Roberts, AM, Healy, D, Spitzer, R, Chappell, A, Fletcher, R, Hurst, N, Lau, H, Lunnon, Z, Parkin, CJ, Smith, LK, Tymms, VJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: EAGE 2007
• Subjects: Greenland; Saunders; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/19110

Introduction Continental break-up between Greenland and Europe in the early Tertiary was accompanied by the eruption of > 1 million km3 of basalt flows generated by decompression melting of the underlying, abnormally hot mantle of the proto-Iceland plume (White and McKenzie, 1989). Extrusion occu...