Evidence for active extensional tectonic features within the Acapulco trench fill at the Rivera-North America plate boundary

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 323, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-152

  Michaud, François ^a   De Lépinay, Bernard Mercier ^b   Bourgois, Jacques ^a   Calmus, Thierry ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS and Institut de Géodynamique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSION; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEABEAM; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMERSIBLE DIVING; TRENCH FILL;

PACIFIC, ACAPULCO TRENCH;

EID: 0029854715     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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