Continent-ocean transition and voluminous magmatic underplating derived from P-wave velocity modelling of the East Greenland continental margin

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 580-604

  Voss, Max ^a   Jokat, Wilfried ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; East Greenland; Ray tracing; Rifted margin; Underplating

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FORMATION MECHANISM; MAGMATISM; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; P-WAVE; RAY TRACING; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TRAVEL TIME; UNDERPLATING; WAVE VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 34547188660     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03438.x     Document Type: Article

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