Lower Cretaceous deposits trapped near the equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Nature

Volumn 380, Issue 6574, 1996, Pages 518-520

  Bonatti, E ^a,b   Ligi, M ^a   Borsetti, A M ^a   Gasperini, L ^a   Negri, A ^c   Sartori, R ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; LIMESTONE; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; RIDGE JUMPING; SEA-FLOOR SPREADING; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, ROMANCHE FRACTURE ZONE;

EID: 0029730340     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/380518a0     Document Type: Article

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