On the roughness of Mesozoic oceanic crust in the western North Atlantic

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 286-290

  Minshull, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

North Atlantic; Oceanic crust; Roughness

Indexed keywords

MESOZOIC; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; RELIEF; ROUGHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032907046     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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