Volcanic margin formation and Mesozoic rift propagators in the Cuvier Abyssal Plain off Western Australia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue B11, 1998, Pages 27135-27149

  Mihut, Dona ^a   Dietmar Muller R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MESOZOIC; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

(WEST); AUSTRALIA; CUVIER ABYSSAL PLAIN; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0032469901     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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