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DrRebeccaBell

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering

Reader in Tectonics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 0903rebecca.bell

 
 
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2.37aRoyal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Claringbould:2020:10.1029/2019tc005924,
author = {Claringbould, JS and Bell, RE and Jackson, CA and Gawthorpe, RL and Odinsen, T},
doi = {10.1029/2019tc005924},
journal = {Tectonics},
pages = {1--29},
title = {Prebreakup extension in the northern North Sea defined by complex strain partitioning and heterogeneous extension rates},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019tc005924},
volume = {39},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The early stages of continental rifting are accommodated by the growth of uppercrustal normal fault systems that are distributed relatively evenly across the rift width. Numerous fault systems define fault arrays , the kinematics of which are poorly understood due to a lack of regional studies drawing on highquality subsurface data. Here we investigate the longterm (~150 Myr) growth of a riftrelated fault array in the East Shetland Basin, northern North Sea, using a regionally extensive subsurface dataset comprising 2D and 3D seismic reflection surveys and 107 boreholes. We show that riftrelated strain during the preTriassictoMiddle Triassic was originally distributed across several subbasins. The MiddletoLate Triassic saw a decrease in extension rate (~14 m/Myr) as strain localized in the western part of the basin. Early Jurassic strain initially migrated eastwards, before becoming more diffuse during the main, MiddletoLate Jurassic rift phase. The highest extension rates (~89 m/Myr) corresponded with the main rift event in the East Shetland Basin, before focusing of strain within the rift axis and ultimate abandonment of the East Shetland Basin in the Early Cretaceous. We also demonstrate marked spatial variations in timing and magnitude of slip alongstrike of major fault systems during this protracted rift event. Our results imply that strain migration patterns and extension rates during the initial, prebreakup phase of continental rifting may be more complex than previously thought; this reflects temporal and spatial changes in both thermal and mechanical properties of the lithosphere, in addition to varying extension rates.
AU  - Claringbould,JS
AU  - Bell,RE
AU  - Jackson,CA
AU  - Gawthorpe,RL
AU  - Odinsen,T
DO  - 10.1029/2019tc005924
EP  - 29
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0278-7407
SP  - 1
TI  - Prebreakup extension in the northern North Sea defined by complex strain partitioning and heterogeneous extension rates
T2  - Tectonics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019tc005924
UR  - https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019TC005924
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/80810
VL  - 39
ER  -
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