Intraplate en echelon volcanic ridges in the South Pacific west of the Easter microplate

Tectonophysics

Volumn 263, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 23-37

  Binard, N ^a   Stoffers, P ^a   Hekinian R ^b   Searle, R C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EASTER MICROPLATE; EN ECHELON PATTERN; EN ECHELON PATTERNS; FRACTURE ZONE; FRACTURE ZONES; GEOID ANOMALIES; GEOID ANOMALY; SATELLITE DATA; VOLCANIC CHAIN; VOLCANIC RIDGE; VOLCANIC RIDGES;

PACIFIC, (SOUTH);

EID: 0030441752     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00036-4     Document Type: Article

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