Deep sea rock record exhumed on oceanic volcanic islands: the Cretaceous sediments of Maio, Cape Verde

Revising the deep water stratigraphy exposed on Maio offers a key section recording the sedimentary evolution in the distal domain of the Central Atlantic and the related North West African Atlantic margin (NWAAM). The oceanic volcanic island is one of nine islands in the Cape Verde archipelago, and is unique to the Central Atlantic due to the exposures of ophiolites and the overlying Mesozoic deep water sediments uplifted during the Cenozoic....