Seismic and gravity data reveal Tertiary interplate subduction in the Bellingshausen Sea, southeast Pacific

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 371-374

  Gohl, Karsten ^a,b   Miller, Frank Nitsche Heinz ^a   Miller, Heinz ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; GRAVITATION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DEEP CRUSTAL STRUCTURES; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; LATE CRETACEOUS; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SATELLITE GRAVITY; SEISMIC SECTIONS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; RELATIVE MOTION; TECTONIC EVENTS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC DATA; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAVITY; LINEATION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0030861538     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0371:SAGDRT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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