Continental Extension in Southern Britain and Surrounding Areas and Its Relationship to the Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean
-
Published:January 01, 1989
-
CiteCitation
R. Andrew Chadwick, Roy A. Livermore, Ian E. Penn, 1989. "Continental Extension in Southern Britain and Surrounding Areas and Its Relationship to the Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean", Extensional Tectonics and Stratigraphy of the North Atlantic Margins, A. J. Tankard, H. R. Balkwill
Download citation file:
- Share
-
Tools
Abstract
The development of Permian to Cretaceous sedimentary basins in southern Britain was profoundly controlled by the extensional reactivation of Caledonian and Variscan structural features. Analysis of fault kinematics and basin geometries indicates that Permian to early Jurassic basins developed within a region of roughly east-west continental extension, as Pangea was stretched. In late Jurassic and early Cretaceous times regional east-west extension continued, but the sedimentary basins of southern England developed a different structural aspect, suggestive of more northward-directed extension, probably related to rotation of Iberia and opening of the Bay of Biscay. Two plate-tectonic reconstructions for end-Carboniferous time are...
Figures & Tables
Contents
Extensional Tectonics and Stratigraphy of the North Atlantic Margins

Stimulated by the wealth of frontier exploration data and deep seismic surveys about the North Atlantic margins, this publication was crafted to provide a comprehensive analysis of North Atlantic extension. The 40 papers in this volume are divided into 6 sections: concepts, North Atlantic perspectives, North American margins, European-African margins, North Sea and Barents Shelf, and analogs. This book is concerned primarily with the circum-North Atlantic data base. It is largely biased toward presentation and interpretation of data rather than being model driven. The book includes comparative stratigraphic columns for basins of the North Atlantic margins.