Magnetic anomaly pattern in the Western Mediterranean
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In the Mediterranean, the slow approach of Africa to Europe can continually produce slabs, and each cycle will sweep sediment from the floor of the existing basin and generate new sediment-free sea floor with magnetic anomalies.
“In the Mediterranean the slow approach of Africa to Europe can continually produce slabs, and each cycle will sweep the sediment from the floor of the existing basin and generate new sediment free sea floor with magnetic anomalies (Bayer et al. 1973).”
From Speculations on the Thermal and Tectonic History of the Earth (2007) · cites this paper as Bayer et al. 1973
Section 3 (page unavailable) interprets the Balearic Basin’s magnetic lineations as evidence of seafloor spreading. Section 4 (page unavailable) proposes that the basin opened while an oceanic zone near the African platform was closing. The paper does not describe continual slab-producing cycles, sediment being swept from an existing basin, or the resulting seafloor being sediment-free. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Bayer, R., Le Mouel, J. L., & Le Pichon, X.
- Affiliations
- Institut de physique du globe de Paris (FR)
- Venue
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1973-06
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 168-176
- ISSN
- 0012-821X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2150398488
- Cited by
- 109
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 7.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- archimer.ifremer.fr
- Locations
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters (publishedVersion)
- Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geology › Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
- Keywords
- magnetic anomalies, Balearic Basin, Western Mediterranean, fracture zones, plate tectonics, rifting, magnetic survey, downward continuation
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