Rifted Ocean-Continent Boundaries, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995 Nato Science Series C: Series, Vol. 463

Rifted Ocean-Continent Boundaries covers a wide range of topics, from quantitative modelling to current knowledge of the structure and evolution of specific margins around the world. Special emphasis is placed on the structure and evolution of various Atlantic margins.
After an introduction to volcanic margin concepts, the first articles report the results of numerical models of the mechanics of rift propagation, melt generation and sources of extensional stresses that may cause break-up. One part of the book is dedicated to current knowledge of the structure and evolution of various Atlantic margins. After a brief incursion into the Mediterranean, succeeding articles report on the transform and active margins of the Ivory Coast-Ghana transform margin and the Sea of Japan.

Preface.- List of Participants.- List of Contributors.- Volcanic Margin Concepts..- Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Interaction Below Rifts..- Finite Duration Rifting, Melting and Subsidence at Continental Margins.- Stresses Associated with Continental Break-up.- Gravity Anomalies and the Thermal and Mechanical Structure of Rifted Continental Margins.- Nature of Thin Cru st Across the Southwest Greenland Margin and its Bearing on the Location of the Ocean-Continent Boundary.- Anisotropy Measureme nts and the Deep Structure of a Pass ive Margin : Southwestern Greenland..- Rifted Continental Margin off mid-Norway..- The EDGE experiment and the U.S Coast Magnetic anomaly.- Structure of Atlantic Oceanic Crust Around Chron MI6 from Deep Seismic Reflection Profiles.- Constraints on rifting processes from refracti on and deep-tow magnetic data: Ihe nample of Ihe Galicia continental margin (West Iberia).- Nature, Structure and Evolution of the Ocean-Continent Boundary: The Lesson of the West Galicia Margin (Spain ).- Detachment Faulting and Continental Breakup: The S Reflector Offshore Galicia.- Lithospheric Transition fmm Continental to Oceanic in the West Iberia Atlantic Margin.- Continental-Oceanic Crustal Transition in the Bransfield Trough and the South Scotia Ridge (Antarctica); Preliminary results..- Mapping the Moho in the Iberian Mediterranean Margin by Multicoverage ProcessIng and Merging of Wide-Angle and Near- Vertical Reflection Data.- Structure of the Marmara Sea Basin in the North Anatolian Fault Zone.- The Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana Transform Margin: An Example of an Ocean-Continent Transform Boundary.- Backarc Evolution and Ophiolite Formation.- Seismic Crustal Structure of the Japan Sea: New Results by Ocean Bottom Seismographic Observations.- Key Word / Subject Index.-Thematic Index.