Tectonics of the Bay of Bengal: New insights from satellite-gravity and ship-borne geophysical data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 237-251

  Subrahmanyam, C ^a   Thakur, N K ^a   Gangadhara Rao, T ^a   Khanna, Ramesh ^a   Ramana, M V ^b   Subrahmanyam, V ^b  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Bay of Bengal; Geophysical surveys; Satellite methods; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY ANOMALY; HOT SPOT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; TECTONICS;

BAY OF BENGAL;

EID: 0032745711     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00148-X     Document Type: Article

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