Deep-imaging seismic and gravity results from the offshore Cameroon Volcanic Line, and speculation of African hotlines

Tectonophysics

Volumn 284, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 31-63

  Meyers, Jayson B ^a,b   Rosendahl, Bruce R ^a   Harrison, Christopher G A ^a   Ding, Zan Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Astro Mining   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Geophysics; Mantle convection; Seismic; South Atlantic; Volcanic island; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001902418     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00173-X     Document Type: Article

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