Analogue experiments on releasing and restraining bends and their application to the study of the Barents Shear Margin

Gabrielsen, Roy Helge; Giannenas, Panagiotis Athanasios; Sokoutis, Dimitrios; Willingshofer, Ernst; Hassaan, Muhammad; Faleide, Jan Inge

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-961-2023

Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-961-2023

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Analogue modelling of basin inversion

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-14-961-2023

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31 Aug 2023

Research article |

| 31 Aug 2023

Analogue experiments on releasing and restraining bends and their application to the study of the Barents Shear Margin

Roy Helge Gabrielsen, Panagiotis Athanasios Giannenas, Dimitrios Sokoutis, Ernst Willingshofer, Muhammad Hassaan, and Jan Inge Faleide

Data sets

The Norwegian National Data Repository for petroleum data DISKOS https://www.npd.no/en/diskos/seismic/

Short summary

The Barents Shear Margin defines the border between the relatively shallow Barents Sea that is situated on a continental plate and the deep ocean. This margin's evolution history was probably influenced by plate tectonic reorganizations. From scaled experiments, we deduced several types of structures (faults, folds, and sedimentary basins) that help us to improve the understanding of the history of the opening of the North Atlantic.