Lower Cretaceous to eocene sedimentary transverse ridge at the romanche fracture zone and the opening of the equatorial Atlantic

Marine Geology

Volumn 176, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 101-119

  Gasperini, L ^a   Bernoulli, D ^b   Bonatti, E ^a   Borsetti, A M ^a   Ligi, M ^a   Negri, A ^c   Sartori, R ^d   Von Salis, K ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Equatorial Atlantic opening; Maiolica; Romanche fracture zone; Transpression; Transverse ridges

Indexed keywords

TRANSVERSE RIDGE;

BASALT; LIMESTONE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; FRACTURE ZONE; PALEOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035876786     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(01)00146-3     Document Type: Article

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