Non-volcanic rifted margins, continental break-up and the onset of sea-floor spreading: Some outstanding questions

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 187, Issue , 2001, Pages 9-30

  Boillot, G ^a   Froitzheim, N ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035719320     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2001.187.01.02     Document Type: Article

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