New data on the geology of the Romanche F.Z., equatorial Atlantic: PRIMAR-96 cruise report

Giornale di Geologia

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 3-18

  Gasperini, Luca ^a   Bonatti, Enrico ^a,b   Brunelli, Daniele ^c   Carrara, Gabriela ^a   Cipriani, Anna ^c   Fabretti, Paola ^a   Gilod, Dolores ^d   Ligi, Marco ^a   Peyve, Alexander ^e   Skolotnev, Serghei ^e   Susini, Sara ^c   Tartarotti, Paola ^c   Turko, Natalija ^e  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE ZONE; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; MARINE GEOLOGY;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031403478     PISSN: 00170291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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