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Journal articles on the topic "Sea floor spreading; Continental drift"

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Hoffman, Paul F. "Tuzo Wilson and the acceptance of pre-Mesozoic continental drift." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 51, no. 3 (March 2014): 197–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2013-0172.

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Tuzo Wilson’s well-known pre-1961 opposition to continental drift stemmed from his early experience as a geologist in the Appalachians and the Canadian Shield, which convinced him that orogenesis did not change drastically over geologic time. Conversely, Taylor (in 1910) and Wegener (in 1912) hypothesized that continental drift began in Cenozoic or Mesozoic time. Between 1949 and 1960, Tuzo Wilson with Adrian Scheidegger developed a quasi-uniformitarian model of progressive continental accretion around fixed Archean nuclei. Tuzo abruptly jettisoned this model in 1961 when, under pressure from paleomagnetic evidence for continental drift and a nascent concept of sea-floor spreading, he finally entertained the possibility of pre-Mesozoic as well as younger continental drift. He immediately found it a superior fit to Appalachian and Shield geology, while his uniformitarian conviction remained intact. Tuzo had blinded himself to the evidence for continental drift so long as he confined it to Taylor or Wegener’s conception. In continental drift operating continuously over geologic time, he found a theory he could eagerly accept.
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Thiede, J., A. Altenbach, U. Bleil, R. Botz, P. Mudie, S. Pfirman, and E. Sundvor. "Properties and history of the central eastern Arctic sea floor." Polar Record 26, no. 156 (January 1990): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400022695.

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ABSTRACTThe deep eastern Arctic basin between the Lomonosov Ridge and the Eurasian continental margin differs from other ocean basins in the very slow spreading of its floor and unusual depositional environment under perennial sea-ice cover. The recent expedition ARK IV/3 of RV Polar stern for the first time made geoscientific investigations from the northern margin of the Barents Sea north to the Nansen-Gakkel Ridge. Much deeper than most other mid-ocean ridges, this ridge is poorly-surveyed, but has a central valley which in places is deeper than 5.5 km, 1–1.5 km below the basin floors on either side. Heat flow in the central part of the valley is very rapid; both basement rocks and overlying sediments showed unexpectedly the influence of intense and long-term hydrothermal activity. The sediments on the northern and southern flanks of the ridge are slightly calcareous pelagic mud layers alternating with carbonate-free horizons, where up to 40% of the sedimentary section is soft mud clasts. Similar mud aggregates were observed on the surface of the multi-year sea ice, appearing to represent a special type of sediment transport by sea ice in the Transpolar Drift. In contrast to the western Arctic, Fram Strait and the Norwegian-Greenland Sea, gravel is rarely found in sediment cores. Recovered cores indicate that icebergs and sea ice carrying coarse sediment seldom rafted detritus to the study area during the last approximately 300,000 years.
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MKenzie, Dan. "A Geologist Reflects on a Long Career." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 46, no. 1 (May 30, 2018): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010111.

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Fifty years ago Jason Morgan and I proposed what is now known as the theory of plate tectonics, which brought together the ideas of continental drift and sea floor spreading into what is probably their final form. I was twenty-five and had just finished my PhD. The success of the theory marked the beginning of a change of emphasis in the Earth sciences, which I have spent the rest of my career exploring. Previously geophysicists had principally been concerned with using ideas and techniques from physics to make measurements. But the success of plate tectonics showed that it could also be used to understand and model geological processes. This essay is concerned with a few such efforts in which I have been involved: determining the temperature structure and rheology of the oceanic and continental lithosphere, and with how mantle convection maintains the plate motions and the long-wavelength part of the Earth's gravity field. It is also concerned with how such research is supported.
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Taylor, Brian, Andrew Goodliffe, Fernando Martinez, and Richard Hey. "Continental rifting and initial sea-floor spreading in the Woodlark basin." Nature 374, no. 6522 (April 1995): 534–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/374534a0.

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Makris, J., and A. Ginzburg. "The Afar Depression: transition between continental rifting and sea-floor spreading." Tectonophysics 141, no. 1-3 (September 1987): 199–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(87)90186-7.

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Goodliffe, A. M., and B. Taylor. "The boundary between continental rifting and sea-floor spreading in the Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 282, no. 1 (2007): 217–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/sp282.11.

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Farrar, Edward, and John M. Dixon. "Ridge subduction: kinematics and implications for the nature of mantle upwelling." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30, no. 5 (May 1, 1993): 893–907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e93-074.

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Ridge subduction follows the approach of an oceanic spreading centre towards a trench and subduction of the leading oceanic plate beneath the overriding plate. There are four possible kinematic scenarios: (1) welding of the trailing and overriding plates (e.g., Aluk–Antarctic Ridge beneath Antarctica); (2) slower subduction of the trailing plate (e.g., Nazca–Antarctic Ridge beneath Chile and Pacific–Izanagi Ridge beneath Japan); (3) transform motion between the trailing and overriding plates (e.g., San Andreas Transform); or (4) divergence between the overriding and trailing plates (e.g., Pacific – North America). In case 4, the divergence may be accommodated in two ways: the overriding plate may be stretched (e.g., Basin and Range Province extension, which has brought the continental margin into collinearity (and, therefore, transform motion) with the Pacific – North America relative motion); or divergence may occur at the continental margin and be manifest as a change in rate and direction of sea-floor spreading because the pair of spreading plates changes (e.g., from Pacific–Farallon to Pacific – North America), spawning a secondary spreading centre (i.e., Gorda – Juan de Fuca – Explorer ridge system) that migrates away from the overriding plate.Mantle upwelling associated with sea-floor spreading ridges is widely regarded as a passive consequence, rather than an active cause, of plate divergence. Geological and geophysical phenomena attendant to ridge–trench interaction suggest that regardless of the kinematic relations among the three plates, a thermal anomaly formerly associated with the ridge migrates beneath the overriding plate. The persistence of this thermal anomaly demonstrates that active mantle upwelling may continue for tens of millions of years after ridge subduction. Thus, regardless of whether the mantle upwelling was active or passive at its origin, it becomes active if the spreading continues for sufficient time and, thus, must contribute to the driving mechanism of plate tectonics.
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Goričan, Špela, Josip Halamić, Tonći Grgasović, and Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek. "Stratigraphic evolution of Triassic arc-backarc system in northwestern Croatia." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 176, no. 1 (January 1, 2005): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/176.1.3.

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Abstract Middle Triassic arc-related extensional tectonics in the western Tethys generated a complex pattern of intra-and backarc basins. We studied volcano-sedimentary successions of subsided continental-margin blocks (Mts. Žumberak and Ivanščica) and of dismembered incomplete ophiolite sequences interpreted as remnants of a backarc basin (Mts. Medvednica and Kalnik) in northwestern Croatia. We dated the successions with radiolarians, conodonts, foraminifers, algae, and sponges. The continental margin experienced a phase of accelerated subsidence in the late Anisian that was approximately coincident with the onset of intermediate and acidic volcanism; pelagic sediments with volcaniclastics accumulated atop subsided carbonate platforms. These relatively shallow basins were later infilled completely by prograding platforms in the late Ladinian-Carnian. In the backarc basin, sea-floor spreading initiated near the Anisian-Ladinian boundary and continued into the late Carnian. Pillow basalts were erupted and interlayered with radiolarian cherts and shales. The studied area was a part of a larger Triassic arc-backarc system preserved in the southern Alps, Alpine-Carpathian Belt, Dinarides, and Hellenides. Volcano-sedimentary successions of Mts. Medvednica and Kalnik are relics of the Meliata-Maliak backarc basin. In comparison to other previously dated oceanic remnants of this system, the longest continuous sea-floor spreading is now documented in one restricted tectonic unit.
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Nelson, Gareth. "A Decade of Challenge the Future of Biogeography." Earth Sciences History 4, no. 2 (January 1, 1985): 187–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.4.2.c347xp1671w4m0n0.

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According to Croizat's global synthesis, the main biogeographic patterns include trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific, trans-Indoceanic, Boreal, and Austral. Geological and geophysical theories vary, but agree that sea-floor spreading in the Pacific is different in its effect from that in other ocean basins. The difference allows for radial expansion of the basin and not merely east-west displacement of continental areas. Biogeographic data suggest that bipolar (boreal + austral) distributions are to be reckoned among the results of sea-floor spreading in the Pacific. Data from one group of inshore fishes (family Engraulidae) exemplify this notion and add, as terminal parts of the differentiation of the Pacific Basin, trans-Panama marine vicariance and a collateral occurrence in freshwater of tropical South America. These findings corroborate Croizat's synthesis. They suggest that the critical evaluation of that synthesis will be the main task of biogeography over the next decade. They indicate that within the area of systematics, evaluation will require a cladistic approach and the elimination of paraphyletic groups from classification.
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Boillot, G., and N. Froitzheim. "Non-volcanic rifted margins, continental break-up and the onset of sea-floor spreading: some outstanding questions." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 187, no. 1 (2001): 9–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsl.sp.2001.187.01.02.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sea floor spreading; Continental drift"

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Russell, Simon Mark. "A magnetic study of the west Iberia and conjugate rifted continental margins : constraints on rift-to-/drift processes." Thesis, Durham University, 1999. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4358/.

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The analysis and modelling of magnetic anomalies at the conjugate rifted continental margins of the southern Iberia Abyssal Plain (TAP) and Newfoundland Basin have revealed that the sources of magnetic anomalies are distinctly different across both each margin and between the two margins. Analyses of synthetic anomalies and gridded sea surface magnetic anomaly charts west of Iberia and east of Newfoundland were accomplished by the methods of Euler deconvolution, forward and inverse modelling of the power spectrum, reduction-to-the-pole, and forward and inverse indirect methods. In addition, three near-bottom magnetometer profiles were analysed by the same methods in addition to the application of componental magnetometry. The results have revealed that oceanic crust, transitional basement and thinned continental crust are defined by magnetic sources with different characteristics. Over oceanic crust, magnetic sources are present as lava-flow-like bodies whose depths coincide with the top of acoustic basement seen on MCS profiles. Top-basement source depths are consistent with those determined in two other regions of oceanic crust. In the southern IAP, oceanic crust, ~4 km thick with magnetizations up to +1.5 A/m, generated by organized seafloor spreading was first accreted -126 Ma at the position of a N-S oriented segmented basement peridotite ridge. To the west, seafloor spreading anomalies can be modelled at spreading rates of 10 mm/yr or more. Immediately to the east, in a zone -10-20 km in width, I identify seafloor spreading anomahes which can only be modelled assuming variable spreading rates. In the OCT, sources of magnetic anomalies are present at the top of basement and up to -6 km beneath. I interpret the uppermost source as serpentinized peridotite, and the lowermost source as intruded gabbroic bodies which were impeded, whilst rising upwards, by the lower density serpentinized peridotites. Intrusion was accompanied by tectonism and a gradual change in conditions from rifting to seafloor spreading as the North Atlantic rift propagated northwards in Early Cretaceous times. Within thinned continental crust, sources are poorly lineated, and distributed in depth. Scaling relationships of susceptibility are consistent with the sources of magnetic anomalies within continental crust. OCT-type intrusions may be present in the mantle beneath continental crust. At the conjugate Newfoundland margin, seafloor spreading anomalies can be modelled at rates of 8 and 10 mm/yr suggesting an onset age consistent with that of the IAP. In the OCT there, I propose that magnetic anomalies are sourced in near top-basement serpentinized peridotites. An absence of magmatic material and the differences in basement character (with the IAP) suggest that conjugate margin evolution may have been asymmetric.
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Bullock, Andrew David. "From continental thinning to sea-floor spreading :." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403883.

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Greenhalgh, Erica. "A geodynamic model for continental breakup and sea-floor spreading initiation : implications for post-breakup rifted margin hinterland uplift." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539517.

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Moscardelli, Lorena Gina. "Mass transport processes and deposits in offshore Trinidad and Venezuela, and their role in continental margin development." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3080.

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Moscardelli, Lorena Gina 1977. "Mass transport processes and deposits in offshore Trinidad and Venezuela, and their role in continental margin development." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/13267.

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Books on the topic "Sea floor spreading; Continental drift"

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Frankel, Henry. The continental drift controversy: Introduction of seafloor spreading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Vrielynck, Bruno. The changing face of the Earth: The break-up of Pangaea and continental drift over the past 250 million years in ten steps. Paris, France: Commission for the Geological Map of the World, 2003.

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Chudinov, I͡U V. Global eduction tectonics of the expanding earth. Utrecht: VSP, 1998.

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Sea Floor Spreading and Continental Drift. Springer, 2012.

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Vrielynck, Bruno, and Philippe Bouysse. The Changing Face of the Earth: The Break-up of Pangaea And Continental Drift over the Past 250 Million Years in Ten Steps (Earth Sciences). UNESCO, 2005.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sea floor spreading; Continental drift"

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Dercourt, Jean, and Jacques Paquet. "Continental Drift and Sea-Floor Spreading." In Geology Principles & Methods, 135–54. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4956-0_9.

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Pichon, Xavier Le. "Sea-Floor Spreading and Continental Drift." In Collected Reprint Series, 3661–97. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118782149.ch6.

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Uyeda, Seiya. "6 Continental drift, sea-floor spreading, and plate/plume tectonics." In International Geophysics, 51–67. Elsevier, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0074-6142(02)80209-1.

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"Continental Drift and Sea Floor Spreading, The Forerunners of Plate Tectonics." In Shocks and Rocks: Seismology in the Plate Tectonics Revolution, 31–39. Washington, D. C.: American Geophysical Union, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118777572.ch4.

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Oreskes, Naomi. "Two Visions of the Earth." In The Rejection of Continental Drift. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117325.003.0007.

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Plate tectonics is the unifying theory of modern geology. This theory, which holds that the major features of the earth’s surface are created by horizontal motions of the continents, has been hailed as the geological equivalent of the “theory of the Bohr atom in its simplicity, its elegance, and its ability to explain a wide range of observation,” in the words of A. Cox. Developed in the mid-1960s, plate tectonics rapidly took hold, so that by 1971, Gass, Smith, and Wilson could say in their introductory textbook in geology: . . . During the last decade, there has been a revolution in earth sciences . . . which has led to the wide acceptance that continents drift about the face of the earth and that the sea-floor spreads, continually being created and destroyed. Finally in the last two to three years, it has culminated in an all-embracing theory known as “plate tectonics.” The success of plate tectonics theory is not only that it explains the geophysical evidence, but that it also presents a framework within which geological data, painstakingly accumulated by land-bound geologists over the past two centuries, can be fitted. Furthermore, it has taken the earth sciences to the stage where they can not only explain what has happened in the past, and is happening at the present time, but can also predict what will happen in the future. . . . Today moving continents are a scientific fact. But some forty years before the advent of the theory of plate tectonics, a very similar theory, initially known as the “displacement hypothesis,” was proposed and rejected by the geological fraternity. In 1912, a German meteorologist and geophysicist, Alfred Wegener, proposed that the continents of the earth were mobile; in the decade that followed he developed this idea into a full-fledged theory of tectonics that was widely discussed and debated and came to be known as the theory of continental drift. To a modern geologist, raised in the school of plate tectonics, Wegener’s book, The Origin of Continents and Oceans, appears an impressive and prescient document that contains many of the essential features of plate tectonic theory.
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Alexander, Earl B., Roger G. Coleman, Todd Keeler-Wolfe, and Susan P. Harrison. "Nature of Ultramafics." In Serpentine Geoecology of Western North America. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195165081.003.0005.

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The earth is divided into three layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. There are two principle regions within the crust: continents and ocean basins. The rocks that make up these layers differ from one another in chemical composition and density. The mantle is composed of dense ultramafic rocks, rich in magnesium-iron silicate minerals such as olivine and pyroxene. Ultramafic rock is the main source of serpentine soil in the continental crust. Most of the lighter crustal rocks are made up of silicate minerals that are enriched in the lighter elements sodium, calcium, and potassium, which have large cations, rather than magnesium (also a light element) and iron, which have smaller cations (table 2-1, appendix A). Over geological time living organisms have evolved on continents or in oceans with elemental concentrations dependent more on the crust than on the mantle. In the oceanic realm, new oceanic crust forms at spreading centers between active plates where hot, decompressed mantle rock rising toward the surface partially melts to form basaltic magma. The spreading centers develop at mid-ocean ridges, behind volcanic arcs (back-arc basins), in front of volcanic arcs (forearc basins), or as continents rift apart, as with the Red Sea. Cracks formed between the spreading plates are intruded by basaltic magma that forms thin vertical sheets (sheeted dikes). New cracks and dikes are continually forming as the plates spread apart. Some of the magma rising into the cracks reaches the ocean floor and, as the hot lava is quenched by ocean water, it solidifies to form distinctive rounded, pillowlike structures. As magma above the partially melted mantle cools, some of the first crystals to form settle to the bottoms of liquid magma chambers, producing layered gabbros—a process called differentiation. The layered sequence of pillow lava, diabase dikes, and gabbro built upon the ultramafic mantle is typical of new ocean crust. New crust formed at spreading centers slowly migrates away from the spreading center and cools into a rigid oceanic crust that ranges in thickness from 6 to 12 km.
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Hutchison, Charles S. "The Geological Framework." In The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199248025.003.0011.

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This chapter outlines the principal geological features of the region, extending from Myanmar and Taiwan in the north, southwards to include all the ASEAN countries, and extending as far as northern Australia. The present-day lithospheric plates and plate margins are described, and the Cenozoic evolution of the region discussed. Within a general framework of convergent plate tectonics, Southeast Asia is also characterized by important extensional tectonics, resulting in the world’s greatest concentration of deep-water marginal basins and Cenozoic sedimentary basins, which have become the focus of the petroleum industry. The pre-Cenozoic geology is too complex for an adequate analysis in this chapter and the reader is referred to Hutchison (1989) for further details. A chronological account summarizing the major geological changes in Southeast Asia is given in Figure 1.2. The main geographical features of the region were established in the Triassic, when the large lithospheric plate of Sinoburmalaya (also known as Sibumasu), which had earlier rifted from the Australian part of Gondwanaland, and collided with and became sutured onto South China and Indochina, together named Cathaysia. The result was a great mountain-building event known as the Indosinian orogeny. Major granites were emplaced during this orogeny, with which the tin and tungsten mineral deposits were genetically related. The orogeny resulted in general uplift and the formation of major new landmasses, which have predominantly persisted as the present-day regional physical geography of Southeast Asia. The Indo-Australian Plate is converging at an average rate of 70 mm a−1 in a 003° direction, pushed from the active South Indian Ocean spreading axis. For the most part it is composed of the Indian Ocean, formed of oceanic sea-floor basalt overlain by deep water. It forms a convergent plate margin with the continental Eurasian Plate, beneath which it subducts at the Sunda or Java Trench. The Eurasian continental plate protrudes as a peninsular extension (Sundaland) southwards as far as Singapore, continuing beneath the shallow Straits of Malacca and the Sunda Shelf as the island of Sumatra and the northwestern part of Borneo.
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Conference papers on the topic "Sea floor spreading; Continental drift"

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Milsom, John, Phil Roach, Chris Toland, Don Riaroh, Chris Budden, and Naoildine Houmadi. "Comoros – New Evidence and Arguments for Continental Crust." In SPE/AAPG Africa Energy and Technology Conference. SPE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/afrc-2572434-ms.

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ABSTRACT As part of an ongoing exploration effort, approximately 4000 line-km of seismic data have recently been acquired and interpreted within the Comoros Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Magnetic and gravity values were recorded along the seismic lines and have been integrated with pre-existing regional data. The combined data sets provide new constraints on the nature of the crust beneath the West Somali Basin (WSB), which was created when Africa broke away from Gondwanaland and began to move north. Despite the absence of clear sea-floor spreading magnetic anomalies or gravity anomalies defining a fracture zone pattern, the crust beneath the WSB has been generally assumed to be oceanic, based largely on regional reconstructions. However, inappropriate use of regional magnetic data has led to conclusions being drawn that are not supported by evidence. The identification of the exact location of the continent-ocean boundary (COB) is less simple than would at first sight appear and, in particular, recent studies have cast doubt on a direct correlation between the COB and the Davie Fracture Zone (DFZ). The new high-quality reflection seismic data have imaged fault patterns east of the DFZ more consistent with extended continental crust, and the accompanying gravity and magnetic surveys have shown that the crust in this area is considerably thicker than normal oceanic and that linear magnetic anomalies typical of sea-floor spreading are absent. Rifting in the basin was probably initiated in Karoo times but the generation of new oceanic crust may have been delayed until about 154 Ma, when there was a switch in extension direction from NW-SE to N-S. From then until about 120 Ma relative movement between Africa and Madagascar was accommodated by extension in the West Somali and Mozambique basins and transform motion along the DFZ that linked them. A new understanding of the WSB can be achieved by taking note of newly-emerging concepts and new data from adjacent areas. The better-studied Mozambique Basin, where comprehensive recent surveys have revealed an unexpectedly complex spreading history, may provide important analogues for some stages in WSB evolution. At the same time the importance of wide continent-ocean transition zones marked by the presence of hyper-extended continental crust has become widely recognised. We make use of these new insights in explaining the anomalous results from the southern WSB and in assessing the prospectivity of the Comoros EEZ.
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