Tectonic implications of exposure of lower continental crust beneath the Iberia Abyssal plain, northeast Atlantic Ocean: Geophysical evidence

Tectonics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 919-942

  Whitmarsh, R B ^a   Dean, S M ^a   Minshull, T A ^a   Tompkins, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL PLAIN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEFORMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIA ABYSSAL PLAIN;

EID: 0034452490     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000TC900016     Document Type: Article

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