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f Mesozoic Basin Development on the North Atlantic Margins - its Relationship to Late-Precambrian Rifting
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 57th EAGE Conference and Exhibition, May 1995, cp-90-00393
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-06-1
Abstract
There is a large amount of evidence which can be used to demonstrate that the Mesozoic rifting and structural style of the North Atlantic margins is determined by Precambrian extensional structures and not Caledonian (Late Ordovician to Silurian) compressional structures as previously presumed.