About this title - Imaging, Mapping and Modelling Continental Lithosphere Extension and Breakup
This book summarizes our present understanding of the formationof passive continental margins and their ocean–continenttransitions. It outlines the geological, geophysical and petrologicalobservations that characterize extensional systems, and howsuch observations can guide and constrain dynamic and kinematicmodels of continental lithosphere extension, breakup and theinception of organized sea-floor spreading. The book focuseson imaging, mapping and modelling lithospheric extensional systems,at both the regional scale using dynamic models to the localscale of individual basins using kinematic models, with an emphasison capturing the extensional history of the Iberia and Newfoundlandmargins. The results from a number of other extensional regimesare presented to provide comparisons with the North Atlanticstudies; these range from the Tethyan realm and the northernRed Sea to the western and southern Australian margins, theBasin and Range Province, and the Woodlark basin of Papua NewGuinea. All of these field studies, combined with lessons learntfrom the modelling, are used to address fundamental questionsabout the extreme deformation of continental lithosphere.
