U.S. mid-Atlantic margin structure and early thermal evolution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B10, 1997, Pages 22855-22875

  Lizarralde, Daniel ^a,b   Steven Holbrook, W ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; RIFTED MARGIN; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC, US MARGIN;

EID: 0031414845     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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