Cooling in rifting sequences during increasing burial depth due to heat flow decrease

Terra Nova

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 365-371

  Ceriani, Andrea ^a   Di Giulio, Andrea ^a   Fantoni, Roberto ^b   Scotti, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; HEAT FLOW; MICROPLATE; RIFTING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; LOMBARDY BASIN; NORTH AFRICA; SIRTE BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748852894     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00700.x     Document Type: Article

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