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From orogenic collapse to rifting: A case study of the northern Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland

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Offshore Ireland, the North Atlantic opening is generally interpreted as successive, 10-to-15-Myr-long, rifting events during the Mesozoic. However, their interaction is poorly documented in terms of structural inheritance and fault reactivation. From extensive seismic and well data in the northern Porcupine Basin, we show that extension actually evolved over an abnormal period of ca. 220 Myrs with overlapping tectonic stages that, all together, reflect the Irish Atlantic Margin construction from the Palaeozoic. During the Carboniferous, extension initiated throughout the Variscan and Caledonian thickened crusts and controlled the deposition of generally slightly-tilted, continental clastics. Two subsequent rifting events, during the Triassic-Lower Jurassic and Upper-Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous, controlled shallow-to-deep marine sedi-mentation in separated sub-basins that progressively widen and connect once extension localised along bounding faults. We propose that extensional tectonics, first controlled by a general orogenic collapse reflecting an early stage of stretching, is then followed by several rifting periods that ultimately evolved toward the hyper-thinning of the margin and shaped an aborted rift propagator. This evolution is due to pre-existing orogenic-related structures and boundary conditions variations. Such a continuum of deformation, although pulsed, implies varying structural interactions of crustal scale that are often recorded in syn-tectonic sediments.
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hal-02323760 , version 1 (23-10-2019)

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Cédric Bulois, Manuel Pubellier, Nicolas Chamot-Rooke, Louise Watremez. From orogenic collapse to rifting: A case study of the northern Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. Journal of Structural Geology, 2018, 114, pp.139-162. ⟨10.1016/j.jsg.2018.06.021⟩. ⟨hal-02323760⟩
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