The Darwin Rise demise: The western Pacific guyot heights trace the trans-Pacific Mendocino fracture zone

Geomorphology

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 223-235

  Smoot, N Christian ^a   King, Robert E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Darwin Rise; Guyot relief; Magnetic anomaly M20; Mendocino Fracture Zone; Paleo sealevel; SASS multibeam bathymetry; Summit plateau break depth

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; FRACTURE ZONE; FRACTURE ZONES; GUYOT; GUYOTS; SUMMIT PLATEAU BREAK DEPTH;

PACIFIC, DARWIN RISE;

EID: 0030836686     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-555x(96)00032-3     Document Type: Article

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