Plate boundary within Tjörnes Fracture Zone on northern Iceland's insular margin

Plate boundary within Tjörnes Fracture Zone on northern Iceland's insular margin

The current North American-Eurasian plate boundary on Iceland's northern insular margin is defined. Overlapping rift zones and en echelon post-glacial volcanic eruptions oblique to the apparent transform direction of the Tjornes Fracture Zone suggest that the fault is in a transient deformation...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 1977-10, Vol.269 (5630), p.663-668
Hauptverfasser: McMaster, Robert L, Schilling, Jean-Guy E, Pinet, Paul R
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The current North American-Eurasian plate boundary on Iceland's northern insular margin is defined. Overlapping rift zones and en echelon post-glacial volcanic eruptions oblique to the apparent transform direction of the Tjornes Fracture Zone suggest that the fault is in a transient deformational stage.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/269663a0