Bollons seamount and early New Zealand-Antarctic seafloor spreading

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Davy, Bryan ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antipodes fracture zone; Bellingshausen plate; Bollons seamount; Bounty trough; Gondwana; Rifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548579023     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001191     Document Type: Article

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