Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

Middle-lower continental crust exhumed at the distal edges of volcanic passive margins

  • Laurent Geoffroy,
  • François Chauvet,
  • Jean-Claude Ringenbach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00420-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Distal edges of volcanic passive margins contain exhumed continental crust that suggests continental material in oceans may be more common than previously thought, according to high-quality multichannel seismic data collected off Namibia