Chapter 15 - The Atlantic Margin Basins of North America

Abstract

The Atlantic margin of North America represents the classic “Atlantic-type” continental margin, notably the margin off the east coast of the United States, which was the site of five deep offshore stratigraphic test hole wells (the Continental Offshore Stratigraphic Test, or COST series) drilled in 1976–1979 on the Georges Bank, the Baltimore Canyon Trough, and the Southeast Georgia Embayment. Data from these holes were used in the development of what have become standard backstripping methods and subsidence models for extensional continental margins.