Structural architecture of the ocean-continent boundary at an oblique transform margin through deep-imaging seismic interpretation and gravity modelling: Equatorial Guinea, West Africa

Tectonophysics

Volumn 374, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 19-40

  Wilson, Paul G ^a   Turner, Jonathan P ^a   Westbrook, Graham K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity modelling; Ocean continent boundary; Seismic reflection; Serpentinization; Transform margin; West Africa

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FRACTURE ZONE; GRAVITY; MOHO; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SERPENTINIZATION;

EQUATORIAL GUINEA;

EID: 0141888879     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00326-3     Document Type: Article

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