The Rockall and the Orphan Basins of the Southern North Atlantic Ocean: Determining Continuous Basins across Conjugate Margins

Reconstructions of the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean generally result in the Orphan Basin, offshore Newfoundland, Canada, lying approximately conjugate to the rift basins on the Irish Atlantic margin at the onset of seafloor spreading toward the end of the Early Cretaceous. Most of these plate...

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Main Authors: Heide MacMahon, J. Kim Welford, Larry Sandoval, Alexander L. Peace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-05-01
Series:Geosciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/5/178