Rifting and Subsidence of the Northern Continental Margin of the Bay of Biscay

Montadert, L.; Roberts, D.G.; de Charpal, O.; Guennoc, Pol

doi:10.2973/dsdp.proc.48.154.1979

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Rifting and Subsidence of the Northern Continental Margin of the Bay of Biscay

Published in U.S. Government Printing Office eBooks • Aug 1, 1979

Authors:

L. Montadert

D.G. Roberts

O. de Charpal

Abstract

In the northeast Atlantic, DSDP drilling results, combined with intensive geophysical surveys, permit a proposed model of the structural evolution of a starved, passive continental margin. Environment and tectonics of the rifting phase have been established. Active rifting took place in Early Cretac...

Subject

Bay

Geology

Continental margin

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