Rigidity of the Atlantic oceanic lithosphere beneath New England seamounts

Tectonophysics

Volumn 359, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 359-369

  Zheng, Ying ^a   Arkani Hamed, Jafar ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gravity; New England seamounts; North Atlantic ocean; Rigidity; Scotian basin; Topography

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; GRAVITY ANOMALY; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; RIGIDITY; SEAMOUNT; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037032566     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00533-4     Document Type: Article

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