Extraction of a lithospheric cooling signal from oceanwide geoid data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 173-181

  DeLaughter, John ^a   Stein, Seth ^b   Stein, Carol A ^c  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geoid; Lithosphere; Plate tectonics; Thermal history

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GEODYNAMICS; GEOID; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE MOTION;

EID: 0033490782     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00247-2     Document Type: Article

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