Evidence for thin oceanic crust on the extinct Aegir Ridge, Norwegian Basin, NE atlantic derived from satellite gravity inversion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Greenhalgh, E E ^a   Kusznir, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANOES;

ASTHENOSPHERE TEMPERATURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERE THINNING; SATELLITE GRAVITY INVERSION; THERMAL GRAVITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GRAVITY; LITHOSPHERE; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CRUST; OLIGOCENE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 34249900758     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029440     Document Type: Article

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