Geometry of a mid-ocean-ridge normal fault

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 835-838

  Minshull, T A ^a   Hall, B D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MORPHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

INTERNAL STRUCTURE; INVERSE METHODS; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; SURFACE EXPRESSION;

FAULT SLIPS;

DEFORMATION; HANGING WALL; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NORMAL FAULT; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEAFLOOR; TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULTS; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE; MIDDLE VALLEY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC;

EID: 0031405567     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0835:GOAMOR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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