Is the middle Cretaceous pulse of rapid sea-floor spreading real or necessary?

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 491-494

  Heller, Paul L ^a   Anderson, Don L ^b   Angevine, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

CORE-MANTLE INTERACTION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUXES; MARINE GEOCHEMISTRIES; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUPERCONTINENTS; TECTONIC FORCES; DEEP MANTLES; SPREADING RATE;

SEA LEVEL;

CRETACEOUS; EUSTACY; MANTLE PLUME; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; EUSTASY; PLATE REORGANIZATION; SEA FLOOR SPREADING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0029773218     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0491:ITMCPO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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