The architecture of distal rifted margins thus remains a matter of intense debate. Various models are regularly proposed to discuss their structural, stratigraphic and magmatic evolution. During the last decade, a new generation of long-offset seismic reflection profiles offered the community an unprecedented improvement in imagery. Margin-scale basement architecture can now be mapped with more confidence, and sedimentary geometries can be studied in more detail at greater depths. Key datasets, such as those acquired and interpreted in the South China Sea or offshore Brazil, have permitted a profound revision of crustal-scale margin geometries.

The Mid-Norwegian rifted margin is an exceptional laboratory in terms of dataset quality, coverage and density, which allow exclusive studies to be achieved in unique details. The study presented in this contribution extends the investigation of the structural and stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the distal and outer domains of the Vøring margin by applying key concepts from within the framework of the new models of rifted margins.