Accelerating late Quaternary uplift of the New Georgia Island Group (Solomon island arc) in response to subduction of the recently active Woodlark spreading center and Coleman seamount

Tectonophysics

Volumn 295, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 259-306

  Mann, Paul ^a   Taylor, Frederick W ^a   Lagoe, Martin B ^b   Quarles, Andrew ^b   Burr, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Late Quaternary uplift rates; New Georgia Island Group; Seamount subduction; Solomon island arc; Woodlark spreading center

Indexed keywords

QUATERNARY; SEAMOUNT; SPREADING CENTRE; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT;

SOLOMON ISLANDS;

EID: 0032532845     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00129-2     Document Type: Article

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