Agulhas Plateau, SW Indian ocean: New evidence for excessive volcanism

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1941-1944

  Uenzelmann Neben, Gabriele ^a   Gohl, Karsten ^a,b   Ehrhardt, Axel ^a   Seargent, Michael ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFRACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; INDIAN OCEAN; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LATE CRETACEOUS; LAVA FLOWS; OCEANIC CRUST; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS;

EXTRUSION; SEISMOLOGY;

AGULHAS PLATEAU; EXTRUSION CENTRES; LAVA; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; SEISMIC REFLECTION LINE; SEISMIC REFRACTION LINE; VOLCANISM;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LAVA FLOW; OCEANIC CRUST; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; VOLCANISM;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0032709503     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900391     Document Type: Article

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