Extinct spreading on the Cocos Ridge

Terra Nova

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 211-216

  Meschede, Martin ^a   Barckhausen, Udo ^b,c   Worm, Horst Ulrich ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT SPOT; PLATE MOTION; SPREADING CENTRE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032420959     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1998.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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