Evolution of oceanic crust on the Kolbeinsey Ridge, north of Iceland, over the past 22 Myr

Terra Nova

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-31

  Kodaira, Shuichi ^a,d   Mjelde, Rolf ^a   Gunnarsson, Karl ^b   Shiobara, Hajime ^c   Shimamura, Hideki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b National Energy Authority Reykjavik   (Iceland)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032454992     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1998.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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