georefid:1984-056284SEDIS Publication Catalogueana.macario@awi.dehttp://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/informationpointOfContact2011-06-23T00:00:00Zhttp://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=1984-056284<gco:CharacterString>Cenozoic and late Mesozoic stratigraphy and subsidence history of the Norwegian margin</gco:CharacterString>1984-01-01publicationgeorefid:1984-056284Mutter, John C.Lamont-Doherty Geol. Obs., Palisades, NY, United StatesauthorGeological Society of America (GSA), Boulder, CO, United StatespublisherdocumentHardcopyGeological Society of America Bulletin95 (10)1135-1149DSDP data at five sites on the outer margin and multichannel seismic data. The margin can be divided into three physiographic provinces: two broad shelf and slope regions separated by the Jan Mayen fracture zone, and the steep, narrow shelf and slope off the Lofoten Islands. Each experienced a separate Cenozoic subsidence history. The Voering Plateau is partly underlain by oceanic crust; it subsided nearly 1,000 m less than expected from thermal contraction, but it did so following the development of a relatively deep-water environment in the Paleocene. North of the Voering Plateau, the margin may have subsided a few hundred meters more than thermal studies had predicted. There is no evidence for a phase of extensional deformation associated with the inception of spreading. The youngest faulted level occurs at the Late Jurassic level, preceding sea-floor spreading by nearly 100 Ma, and deformation in the Cretaceous section is characterized by large uplift structures that may be of halokinetic origin.--Modified journal abstract.completedOceanographyArctic OceanbathymetryCenozoiccontinental margincontinental shelfcontinental slopecontrolscoresCretaceouscrustEuropeextension tectonicsgeophysical methodsgeophysical profilesgeophysical surveysJan Mayen RidgeJurassicmarine sedimentationmarine sedimentsMesozoicmultichannel filtersNorwayNorwegian Seaoceanic crustoceanographypassive marginsphysiographic provincessalt tectonicsScandinaviasea-floor spreadingsedimentationsedimentsseismic methodsstratigraphystructural controlssubsidencesurveystectonicstectonophysicsUpper JurassicVoring PlateauWestern EuropeEnglishgeoscientificInformation0.000014.000063.000069.0000