A Late Miocene plate boundary reorganization along the westernmost Pacific-Antarctic ridge

Tectonophysics

Volumn 274, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 295-305

  Lodolo, Emanuele ^a   Coren, Franco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Magnetic anomalies; Pacific Antarctic ridge; Tectonic readjustment

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE BOUNDARY REORGANIZATION; READJUSTMENT; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONICS;

PACIFIC, PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0030670416     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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