Characterizing the Galicia Bank-Southern Iberia Abyssal Plain rifted margin segment boundary using multichannel seismic and ocean bottom seismometer data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Clark, Stephen A ^a   Sawyer, Dale S ^a   Austin Jr , James A ^b   Christeson, Gail L ^b   Nakamura, Yosio ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MOHO; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GALICIA BANK; IBERIAN ABYSSAL PLAIN;

EID: 34548575456     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004581     Document Type: Article

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