Oceanic transverse ridges: A flexural response to fracture-zone-normal extension

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-74

  Pockalny, Robert A ^a   Gente, Pascal ^b   Buck, Roger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE;

DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE; FLEXURAL RESPONSE; FRACTURE ZONE; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; NORMAL FAULTING; NORMAL FAULTS; SEA FLOOR; TRANSVERSE RIDGE;

FAULT SLIPS;

FRACTURE ZONE; LITHOSPHERE; NORMAL FAULT; SEAFLOOR; EXTENSION; FLEXURAL RESPONSE; FRACTURE ZONES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEA FLOOR MORPHOLOGY; SUBMARINE RIDGES; TRANSVERSE RIDGE; TRANSVERSE RIDGES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; ATLANTIC;

EID: 0029751493     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0071:OTRAFR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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