Research in Structural Geology & Tectonics

East Greenland Volcanic Rifted Margin

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Publications

Karson, J.A and C.K. Brooks, Structural and magmatic segmentation of the Tertiary East Greenland volcanic rifted margin, in Continental Tectonics, edited by C. MacNiocaill and P. Ryan, Geological Society of London, Special Publication 164, 313-338, 1999.

Karson, J.A., Brooks, C.K., Storey, M., and Pringle, M., 1998. Tertiary Faulting and Pseudotachylytes in the East Greenland Volcanic Rifted Margin: Seismogenic Faulting During Magmatic Construction, Geology, v. 26, p. 39-42.

Curewitz, D. and J. A. Karson, Ultracataclasis, sintering, and frictional melting in Tertiary pseudotachylytes from East Greenland, J. Struct. Geol., 21, 1693-1713, 1999.

Abstracts

Karson, J.A, Brooks, C.K., Hanghøj, K. and Nielsen, T.F.D., 1994. Tertiary Faulting Associated With Dike Intrusion and Flexure on the East Greenland Volcanic Rifted Margin, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos v. 75, p 608.

Tegner, C., Bernstein, S., Bird, D.K., Karson, J.A. and C.K. Brooks, 1994. Transition From Continental Flood Basalt Magmatism to Formation of Oceanic Crust as Recorded by Gabbroic Intrusives in the East Greenland Tertiary Province, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v. 75, p. 607.

Karson, J.A., 1995, Large-Scale Faulting and Magmatic Construction at Volcanic Rifts and Continental Margins: Examples from East Africa and East Greenland, Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting (New Orleans), Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, A-120.

Karson, J.A., Storey, M., Brooks, C.K, Pringle, M.,1996. Tertiary Pseudotachylites in East Greenland: Record of Seismic Fault Slip on a Volcanic Rifted Margin, European Union of Geophysics, Terra Abstracts, v. , p., .

Guenther, L.D., Verosub, K.L., Hurst, S.D., and Karson, J.A., 1996, Paleomagnetic Constraints on the Evolution of the Tertiary East Greenland Coast-Parallel Dike Swarm: Tectonic Rotations at a Volcanic Rifted Margin, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v. 77, p. F824.

Klausen, M.B., Brooks, C.K., Nielsen, T.F.D, and Karson, J.A., 1996. Infrastructure of the Coast Parallel Dyke Swarm Along the Rifted Continental Margin of Southeast Greenland, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v. 77, p. F827.

Karson, J.A., Curewitz, D., Brooks, C.K., Storey, M., Larsen, H.C., Pringle, M.S., 1996. Geometry and Kinematics of Faulting on the Tertiary East Greenland Volcanic Rifted Margin, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v. 77, p. F839.

Karson, J.A., 1997. Evolution of the East Greenland Tertiary Volcanic Rifted Margin: Strain Partitioning Across a Continent-Ocean Transition, John F. Dewey Conference on Continental Tectonics, University of Oxford, September 1997.

Curewitz, D. and Karson, J.A., 1998. Ultracataclasis, Sintering, and Frictional Melting in Pseudotachylyte from East Greenland, Eos Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 79, Fall Meeting Supplement, in press.