EGS XXV General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2000

SE13. Vertical movements in the Northern Atlantic Domain: observations, constraints, mechanisms and modelling:

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The evolution of the Northern Atlantic margins have been studied extensively and in great detail, because of the hydrocarbon exploration in the region. Neogene exhumation and compressional tectonics have affected areas around the entire North Atlantic, and rapid late cenozoic subsidence and sedimentation have been observed throughout the Northern Atlantic Domain. The off-shore sedimentary record of the continental shelf has been for a long time the primary target, but more and more the focus of interest has shifted to connection of off-shore and on-shore observations and constraints. A so complete possible data-set of geophysical, geological and geomorphological observations and constraints is needed to understand, explain and model the mechanism causing and controling the observed vertical motions along and at the margin. It is the intention of this symposium to bring together - observations and constraints on vertical motions obtained from in situ measurements, both off-shore and on-shore, - conceptual models and mechanisms applicable to parts and the entire area, and - numerical thermal and mechanical models explaining the large-scale syn-rift, plume and plate boundary related vertiacal movements and those by intraplate tectonics.

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