Continental rifting and metamorphic core complex formation ahead of the Woodlark spreading ridge, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Little, Timothy A ^a   Baldwin, S L ^b   Fitzgerald, P G ^b   Monteleone, B ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DETACHMENT FAULT; GRABEN; GRAIN SIZE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; MYLONITE; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE MOTION; PORE PRESSURE; QUARTZ; RIFTING; SHEAR ZONE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

CORAL SEA; D'ENTRECASTEAUX ISLANDS; MELANESIA; NORMANBY ISLAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOLOMON SEA; WOODLARK BASIN;

EID: 34249848789     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001911     Document Type: Article

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