Transition from continental break-up to punctiform seafloor spreading: How fast, symmetric and magmatic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Corti, Giacomo ^a   Van Wijk, Jolante ^b   Bonini, Marco ^d   Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^c   Cloetingh, Sierd ^c   Innocenti, Fabrizio ^a   Manetti, Piero ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d SEZIONE DI FIRENZE   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TECTONICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; PUNCTIFORM SEAFLOOR SPREADING; ANALOGUE MODELS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MELT PRODUCTION; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC HISTORY;

GEOPHYSICS; STRAIN RATE;

ANALOG MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

EID: 0347413679     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017374     Document Type: Article

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