Anomalous Cenozoic subsidence along the ‘passive’ continental margin from Ireland to mid-Norway

Episodic Cenozoic tectonism and the development of the NW European ‘passive’ continental margin

“…Mutter, 1984;Nadin et al, 1997;Ceramicola et al, 2005). The space provided now accommodates several kilometres of Cenozoic sedimentary strata (up to 2 km on the Vøring margin), within basins that are several kilometres deep (up to 4 km in the southern Rockall Trough) (see Ceramicola et al, 2005). The excess subsidence has been related by many authors to early Cenozoic syn-rift processes, either in a mantle plume context (e.g.…”

A comparison of the NW European glaciated margin with other glaciated margins

“…Based on the coincidence of the spatial and temporal pattern of preservation of topset-strata and depocentres one may infer that this is related to subsidence, which in turn can be related to sediment loading and compaction Ceramicola et al, 2005).…”

Cretaceous anomalous subsidence and its response to dynamic topography in the Songliao Basin, Northeast China

“…Theoretical subsidence is calculated using the classical foreland basin model (Pang and Nummedal, 1995;, the uniform stretching model for the rift basin (McKenzie, 1978) or theoretical models for the other basin types. Anomalous subsidence patterns have been observed in the Western Interior Basin of the United States (Liu and Nummedal, 2004), in the Rockall, Faroe-Shetland and Voring Basins in northwestern Europe (Ceramicola et al, 2005), at the Pearl River Mouth Basin (Xie et al, 2006) and in the Yinggehai Basin (Liao et al, 2011) in the northern region of the South China Sea. The driving mechanisms of anomalous subsidence in various types of basins are different.…”

“…For example, the origin of anomalous subsidence along the northern margin of the South China Sea and its relationship to dynamic topography helped to explain the evolution mechanisms of basins in the northern region of the South China Sea (Xie et al, 2006) and the migration of anomalous subsidence across the western Interior Basin in the Unites States, suggesting that the fundamental driver for subsidence in the Western Interior Basin is the dynamic pull of the sinking Farallon plate (Liu et al, 2011). Despite the wealth of publications regarding the origins of anomalous subsidence in passive continental margin basins (White, 1988;White and McKenzie, 1989;Davis and Kusznir, 2004;Ceramicola et al, 2005;Xie et al, 2006;Liao et al, 2011), anomalous subsidence in continental rift basins is not well understood. The authors of this paper distinguished anomalous post-rift subsidence in the Songliao Basin in northeastern China, and provided information to discuss the subsidence mechanism of the continental rift basin after the cessation of rifting.…”