Conrad Deep, Northern Red Sea: Development of an early stage ocean deep within the axial depression

Tectonophysics

Volumn 411, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 19-40

  Ehrhardt, A ^a,b   Hubscher C ^a   Gajewski, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bathymetric data; Continental rifting; MCS data; Ocean deep; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 29744471118     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.08.011     Document Type: Article

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