The Lau-Havre-Taupo back-arc basin: A southward-propagating, multi-stage evolution from rifting to spreading

Tectonophysics

Volumn 263, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 1-22

  Parson, L M ^a   Wright, I C ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BACKARC BASINS; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; SEA FLOOR SPREADING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

PACIFIC, (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 0030437840     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00029-7     Document Type: Article

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