Tectonics of the Red Sea region reassessed

Earth Science Reviews

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 1-44

  Ghebreab, Woldai ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cenozoic rifting; Dike swarm; Gondwana; Half graben; Normal fault; Red Sea detachment

Indexed keywords

DIKE SWARM; GONDWANA; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING;

RED SEA;

EID: 0032455341     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-8252(98)00036-1     Document Type: Article

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