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      SCIENCES

       Geoscience, Field Director – Yves Lagabrielle

      Dynamics of the Continental Lithosphere, Subject Head – Sylvie Leroy

      Continental Rifted Margins 2

       Case Examples

       Coordinated by

      Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic

      First published 2022 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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      PE10 Earth System Science

      PE10_5 Geology, tectonics, volcanology

      PE10_7 Physics of earth’s interior, seismology, volcanology

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      Introduction

       Gwenn PERON-PINVIDIC ^{1, 2}

       1 Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), Trondheim, Norway

       2 Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

      Volume 2 of this book presents concise reviews of several examples that represent today’s most discussed sites for rifted margin investigations. These cases span a wide range of rifted margin categories (magma-poor vs. magma-rich, sediment-starved vs. sediment-rich, wide vs. narrow, divergent vs. oblique), with both onshore fossil margins (the Pyrenees, Alps and Scandinavian Caledonides) and offshore modern cases (the Arctic, Iberia, Mid-Norway, the South Atlantic, Gulf of Aden and the South China Sea). The summaries provided here are only short descriptions; if the reader is interested in learning more, we direct you to the lists of key recommended scientific contributions, presented in the “Further reading” sections within the chapters.

Figure I.1 shows where the cases discussed in Volume 2 are located, with their chapter number for reference:

      1 1) Iberia;

      2 2) Mid-Norway;

      3 3) South and Equatorial Atlantic;

      4 4) Gulf of Aden;

      5 5) South China Sea;

      6 6) Arctic;

      7 7) Alpine Tethys;

      8 8) Scandinavian Caledonides;

      9 9) Pyrenees.