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| D'Acremont, E; Leroy, S; Beslier, Mo; Bellahsen, N; Fournier, M; Robin, C; Maia, M; Gente, P. |
| The Gulf of Aden is a young and narrow oceanic basin formed in Oligo-Miocene time between the rifted margins of the Arabian and Somalian plates. Its mean orientation, N75 degrees E, strikes obliquely (50 degrees) to the N25 degrees E opening direction. The western conjugate margins are masked by Oligo-Miocene lavas from the Afar Plume. This paper concerns the eastern margins, where the 19-35 Ma breakup structures are well exposed onshore and within the sediment-starved marine shelf. Those passive margins, about 200 km distant, are non-volcanic. Offshore, during the Encens-Sheba cruise we gathered swath bathymetry, single-channel seismic reflection, gravity and magnetism data, in order to compare the structure of the two conjugate margins and to reconstruct... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Continental margins; Gulf of Aden; Ocean-continent transition; Plate divergence; Rifted margin; Seafloor spreading. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00230/34079/32539.pdf |
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