Passive margins: U.S. Geological Survey Line 19 across the Georges Bank basin
AAPG Studies in Geology
27
By: Kim D. Klitgord, John S. Schlee, and John A. Grow
Edited by: A.W. Bally
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Abstract
Georges Bank is a shallow part of the Atlantic continental shelf southeast of New England (Emery and Uchupi, 1972, 1984). This bank, however, is merely the upper surface of several sedimentary basins overlying a block-faulted basement of igneous and metamorphic crystalline rock. Sedimentary rock forms a seaward-thickening cover that has accumulated in one main depocenter and several ancillary depressions, adjacent to shallow basement platforms of paleozoic and older crystalline rock. Georges Bank basin contains a thickness of sedimentary rock greater than 10 km, whereas the basement platforms that flank the basin are areas of thin sediment accumulation (less than 5 km).
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Passive margins: U.S. Geological Survey Line 19 across the Georges Bank basin |
| Series title | AAPG Studies in Geology |
| Series number | 27 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Year Published | 1987 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Association of Petroleum Geologists |
| Publisher location | Tulsa, OK |
| Contributing office(s) | Coastal and Marine Geology Program |
| Description | 3 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Atlas of seismic stratigraphy: AAPG studies in geology #27, volume 2 |
| First page | 81 |
| Last page | 83 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |