Termination of a fossil continent-ocean fracture zone imaged with three-dimensional seismic data: The Chain Fracture Zone, eastern equatorial Atlantic

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 641-644

  Davies, Richard J ^a   MacLeod, Christopher J ^a   Morgan, Richard ^b   Briggs, Sepribo E ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Veritas DGC Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fracture zone; Oceanic crust; Seismic reflection; Transitional crust

Indexed keywords

CONTINENT-OCEAN FRACTURE ZONE (COFZ); CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; OCEANIC CRUSTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FRACTURE; GEOLOGY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VOLCANOES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FRACTURE ZONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 23044500008     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21530.1     Document Type: Article

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