Models and Observations of Vertical Motion (MoveOn) associated with rifting to passive margins: Preface

Two recent co-ordinated research programs – the SAMPLE (South Atlantic Margin Processes and Links with onshore Evolution) program of the German Science Foundation and the French Topo-Africa program – have focused attention on the interaction of the lithosphere with sublithospheric processes. With a main thrust on the West-Gondwana break up and the subsequent post-rift evolution of the South Atlantic passive margins and their hinterlands, SAMPLE and Topo-Africa made concerted efforts to advance models and observations of vertical motions (MoveOn) in the South Atlantic region as a probe into mantle convection/lithosphere interaction. In this special issue of Gondwana Research we assemble a set of contributions that stem from these programs aimed to gain insights on rifting in a geodynamic context with a particular focus on models and observations of the vertical motions of the lithosphere induced by mantle flow.

@article{id2268,
  author = {Bunge, Hans-Peter and Glasmacher, Ulrich Anton},
  doi = {10.1016/j.gr.2017.07.005},
  journal = {Gondwana Research},
  language = {en},
  pages = {1-8},
  title = {Models and Observations of Vertical Motion (MoveOn) associated with rifting to passive margins: Preface},
  volume = {53},
  year = {2018},
}

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