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Tectonic Inheritance in Continental Rifts and Passive Margins

By: Achyuta Ayan Misra,Soumyajit Mukherjee

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Tectonic Inheritance in Continental Rifts and Passive Margins

By: Achyuta Ayan Misra,Soumyajit Mukherjee

This work reviews the mechanism of rifting with a focus on pre-existing tectonic weaknesses in pre-rift and/or basement rocks, i.e., on tectonic inheritance. The passive margins that are studied in this book are the Norwegian Continental Shelf, the Eastern North America and the East and West Indian Continental Margins. The continental rifts that have been analysed are the East African Rift System, the Brazilian Continental Rift Systems and the European Cenozoic Rift System. It states how rifts and passive margins serve as valuable locations for hydrocarbon exploration. Tectonic inheritance/heritage examines the influence of pre-existing/pre-rift elements on the geometry, genesis and propagation of rift-related faults. Such elements include anisotropies in the shallow crustal levels, as well as the rheology of the lithosphere. Inheritance greatly influences the architecture of rifted passive margins including the attitude of faults and geometry of horsts, (half-) grabens, transfer zones etc. Inheritance is also a determining factor in the width of rifts and rift shoulder topography.

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Structural Geological Atlas

By: Soumyajit Mukherjee,Narayan Bose,Rajkumar Ghosh,Dripta Dutta,Achyuta Ayan Misra,Mohit Kumar,Swagato Dasgupta,Tuhin Biswas,Aditya Joshi,Manoj A. Limaye

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Structural Geological Atlas

By: Soumyajit Mukherjee,Narayan Bose,Rajkumar Ghosh,Dripta Dutta,Achyuta Ayan Misra,Mohit Kumar,Swagato Dasgupta,Tuhin Biswas,Aditya Joshi,Manoj A. Limaye

This book presents more than 600 eye-catching structural geological photographs and explanatory descriptions, from different Indian terrains. This book will enable easy identification of deformation features, one of the most important tasks in structural geology at the meso- and micro-scales. The book focuses on ductile and brittle shear sense indicators. This book suits for the undergraduate and graduate geoscience students. The book will be of considerable interest to tectonicians and structural geologists, given the enormous international importance of Indian terrains for exploration and other purposes.

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