<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:creator>Mosar, Jon</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2003-08-01</dc:date>
  <dc:description xmlns:ns0="xml" ns0:lang="en">The tectonics of the eastern passive margin of the North Atlantic are reexamined. The  Scandinavian North Atlantic passive margin includes not only the offshore exploration  and basin domain but also large portions of the onshore domains of the Scandinavian  Caledonides. Combined information from structural geology, potential field data,  regional geology, basin development, and geomorphology made it possible to propose  a new definition of the passive margin. The rift shoulder is formed by linked faults  defining the present rift flank. These faults are the extensional structures located  furthest to the east onshore Norway/Sweden that can be linked to the rifting that led to  the formation of the North Atlantic. This innermost boundary fault system (IBF) is  formed by a set of normal west dipping crustal faults. It extends over a distance  exceeding 2000 km from the North Sea, across the Caledonian mountain belt to the  Barents Sea. The passive margin width, between the continent-ocean boundary and  the IBF, ranges from 550 km in the south to over 700 km in mid-Norway to 165 km  north of Lofoten. Rifting and faulting on the IBF started in Permo-Carboniferous, and a  succession of rift phases eventually culminated in continental breakup and the  formation of the North Atlantic. Basin development between Permian and Cretaceous  was toward the future breakaway fault, but faulting was also active on land from  Mesozoic to Present. Onshore-offshore crustal-scale cross sections show the  geometry of the passive margin, the dip orientation of the major faults and the  changes in crustal thickness.</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/299734</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/299734/files/1_mosar_sna.pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1029/2002JB002134</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>License undefined</dc:rights>
  <dc:source>Journal of Geophysical Research. - 2003, vol. 108, no. 8, p. 2360</dc:source>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns1="xml" ns1:lang="en">structural geology</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns2="xml" ns2:lang="en">local crustal structure</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns3="xml" ns3:lang="en">fractures and faults</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns4="xml" ns4:lang="en">tectonophysics</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns5="xml" ns5:lang="en">continental margins and sedimentary basins</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject xmlns:ns6="xml" ns6:lang="en">continental tectonics</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>info:eu-repo/classification/udc/55</dc:subject>
  <dc:title xmlns:ns7="xml" ns7:lang="en">Scandinavia’s North Atlantic passive margin</dc:title>
  <dc:type>http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501</dc:type>
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