Depth-dependent extension, two-stage breakup and cratonic underplating at rifted margins

Ritske Huismans () and Christopher Beaumont
Additional contact information
Ritske Huismans: Bergen University
Christopher Beaumont: Dalhousie University, Halifax

Nature, 2011, vol. 473, issue 7345, 74-78

Abstract: At the margins of continental rifting Huismans and Beaumont use dynamical models to demonstrate that typical continental margins such as the Iberia–Newfoundland conjugates and the central South Atlantic margins are opposite end members. In the first type, depth-dependent extension results in crustal necking and break-up before mantle lithosphere break-up, whereas in the latter type, the converse is true. These two-layer, two-stage break-up behaviours explain a number of discrepancies between observations and earlier models of continental breakup.

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09988 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:473:y:2011:i:7345:d:10.1038_nature09988

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature09988

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().