Structural architecture of a highly oblique divergent plate boundary segment

Tectonophysics

Volumn 419, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 27-40

  Clifton, Amy E ^a   Kattenhorn, Simon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Iceland; Oblique spreading; Strain partitioning; Tectono magmatic cycle

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; FRACTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ICELAND; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; REYKJANES RIDGE;

EID: 33744506107     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.03.016     Document Type: Article

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