Origin of West Pacific seamounts and features of the cretaceous dynamics of the Pacific plate

Oceanology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 411-417

  Stepashko, A A ^a  

^a KOSYGIN INSTITUTE OF TECTONICS AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPRESSION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT; MELTING; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAMOUNT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 33746932075     PISSN: 00014370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0001437006030131     Document Type: Article

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