Seafloor tectonic fabric from satellite altimetry

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 697-738

  Smith, Walter H F ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global; Gravity anomalies; Roughness; Seafloor spreading rate; Seamount

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA FLOOR; SEAMOUNT; TECTONIC FABRIC;

EID: 0031715881     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.697     Document Type: Article

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