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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth Année : 2021

Deep structure of the Grenada Basin from wide‐angle seismic, bathymetric and gravity data

Frauke Klingelhoefer
Boris Marcaillou
Mireille Laigle
Walter Roest
Marie-Odile Beslier
Laure Schenini
David Graindorge
Franck Audemard
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The Grenada back‐arc basin is located between the Aves Ridge, which hosted the remnant Early Paleogene “Great Caribbean Arc”, and the Eocene to Present Lesser Antilles Arc. Several earlier studies have proposed different modes of back‐arc opening for this basin, including N‐S and E‐W directions. The main aim of this study is to constrain the circumstances leading to the opening of the basin. Three combined wide‐angle and reflection seismic profiles were acquired in the Grenada basin. The final velocity models from forward travel time and gravity modeling image variations in thickness and velocity structure of the sedimentary and crustal layers. The sedimentary cover has a variable thickness between one kilometer on top of the ridges to ∼10 km in the basin. North of Guadeloupe Island, the crust is ∼20 km thick without significant changes between Aves Ridge, the Grenada basin, and the Eocene and present Lesser Antilles arc. South of Guadeloupe Island the Grenada basin is underlain by a oceanic crust of mainly magmatic origin over a width of ∼80 km. Here, the western flank of the Lesser Antilles Arc, the crust is 17.5‐km thick. The velocity structure of the Lesser Antilles Arc is typical of volcanic arcs or oceanic plateaus. West of the basin, the crust thickens to 25 km at Aves Ridge in a 80‐100 km wide arc‐ocean transition zone. The narrowness of this transition zone suggests that opening might have proceeded in a direction oblique to the main convergence. Opening probably was accompanied by moderate volcanism.
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hal-03118869 , version 1 (01-10-2021)

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Crelia Padron, Frauke Klingelhoefer, Boris Marcaillou, Jean‐frédéric Lebrun, Serge Lallemand, et al.. Deep structure of the Grenada Basin from wide‐angle seismic, bathymetric and gravity data. Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth, 2021, ⟨10.1029/2020JB020472⟩. ⟨hal-03118869⟩
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