Evidence for asymmetric accretion and low-angle, planar faults in slow-spreading oceanic crust

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1075-1078

  Collier, Jenny S ^a   Dañobeitia, Juan J ^b   Canales, J P ^c   Dalwood, R ^c   Gadd, S ^c   Hayward, N ^c   Henstock, T ^c   Krastel, S ^c   Peirce, C ^c   Watts, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS;

LITHOSPHERIC; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; OCEANIC CRUST; PLANAR FAULT; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; THREE DIMENSIONS; VOLCANIC RIFTS;

REFLECTION;

ACCRETION; DISCONTINUITY; FAULT ZONE; MOHO; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; FAULT; MESOZOIC; OCEAN CRUST; SEA FLOOR SPREADING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031416771     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1075:EFAAAL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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