Localized rifting at Chagos Bank in the India-Capricorn plate boundary zone

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 237-240

  Henstock, Timothy J ^a   Minshull, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extensional tectonics; Indian Ocean; Intraplate tectonics; Plate boundaries; Seismicity

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY DATA; SEABEDS;

BATHYMETRY; COASTAL ZONES; DEFORMATION; GRAVITATION;

GEOLOGY;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; SEISMICITY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 1842480356     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19850.1     Document Type: Article

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