The tectonics, sedimentation, and palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic Region

Cover......Page 1 Front matter......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 Extensional tectonics in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland: implications for the timing of break-up between Grand Banks and Iberia......Page 9 Sequence stratigraphic response to Aptian-Albian rifting in conjugate margin basins: a comparison of the Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland, and the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland......Page 37 Early Tertiary evolution and sequence stratigraphy of the Faeroe- Shetland Basin: implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity......Page 58 The formation of passive margins: constraints from the crustal structure and segmentation of the deep Galicia margin, Spain......Page 77 Detachment tectonics during Atlantic rifting: analysis and interpretation of the S reflection, the west Galicia margin......Page 98 Seismic investigation of the Faeroe basalts and their substratum......Page 115 Seismic stratigraphy of the Bill Bailey and Lousy Bank area: implications for subsidence history......Page 128 Effect of Eocene-Miocene Compression Structures on Bottom-Water Currents in the Faeroe-RockaH Area......Page 143 The relationship between the distribution of Tertiary sediments, tectonic processes and deep-water circulation around the Faeroe Islands......Page 146 The influence of glacigenic sedimentation on slope-apron development on the continental margin off Northwest Britain......Page 160 Petrography and biostratigraphy of Palaeogene volcaniclastic sediments dredged from the F aeroes shelf......Page 179 Evolution of a major oceanographic pathway: the equatorial atlantic......Page 196 Tertiary compression structures in the Faeroe-Rockall area......Page 211 Pliocene-Pleistocene radiolarian biostratigraphy and palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic......Page 213 The tephrochronology and radiocarbon dating of North Atlantic, Late-Quaternary sediments: an example from the St. Kilda Basin......Page 222 Tertiary structuration and erosion of the Inner Moray Firth......Page 244 Palaeobathymetric reconstruction on a gridded database: the northern North Atlantic and southern Greenland-lceland-Norwegian sea......Page 265 Index......Page 297 Back......Page 304