Seafloor spreading on the Amsterdam-St. Paul hotspot plateau

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B4, 2000, Pages 8263-8277

  Conder, James A ^a   Scheirer, Daniel S ^a   Forsyth, Donald W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 0034629848     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900406     Document Type: Article

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