Decoupling as an alternate model for transpression during the initial opening of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea |
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| Authors: | HARMON D MAHER JR CAMPBELL CRADDOCK |
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| Institution: | Dept. of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, 68182, U.S.A.;Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, U.S.A.;April 1988. |
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| Abstract: | Transpressive plate motions during the opening of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea were in some manner responsible for the development of Spitsbergen's Tertiary fold-and-thrust belt. A flower model has been proposed for the large-scale structural architecture of Tertiary deformation (Lowell 1972). An alternate model of decoupling, where convergent and transcurrent motions were accommodated in totally or partially separated, subparallel belts is suggested. |
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