Segmentation of the southern Mariana back-arc spreading center

Island Arc

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 513-524

  Stuben, Doris ^a   Neumann, Thomas ^a   Taibi, Nasr Eddine ^a   Glasby, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backarc basin; Mariana Trough; Pacific Ocean; Rift zone; Segmentation; Spreading centre

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; RIFT ZONE; SEGMENTATION; SPREADING CENTER;

MARIANA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032453502     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1738.1998.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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