Thermal evolution of onshore West Iberia: A better understanding of the ages of breakup and rift-to-drift in the Iberia-Newfoundland Rift

• Published in: Tectonophysics Vol. 813; p. 228926
• Main Authors: Barbarand, J., Marques, F.O., Hildenbrand, A., Pinna-Jamme, R., Nogueira, C.R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 20.08.2021; Elsevier BV; Elsevier
• Subjects: Age; Apatite; Apatite fission track thermal history; Basements; Breakup; Cooling; Cretaceous; Crystallization; Data acquisition; Denudation; Drift; Evolution; Fission; Hanging walls; Iberia-Newfoundland Atlantic opening; Jurassic; Lithosphere; Rift flank uplift and denudation; Rift-to-drift; Sciences of the Universe; Thermal evolution; Triassic; Uplift; Whole lithosphere failure; Rift-to-drift; Apatite fission track thermal history; Breakup; Iberia-Newfoundland Atlantic opening; Whole lithosphere failure; Rift flank uplift and denudation

The age of breakup which formed the Central-North Atlantic has been debated for many decades and is still subject to debate: from ca. 150 Ma to 110 Ma. To address this issue, we have carried out a thermochronological study of the eastern margin of the rifted Iberia-Newfoundland sector. New apatite f...