Gondwana breakup via double-saloon-door rifting and seafloor spreading in a backarc basin during subduction rollback

Tectonophysics

Volumn 445, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 245-272

  Martin, A K ^a  

^a REPSOL YPF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Backarc basin; Double saloon door seafloor spreading; Gondwana breakup; Opposite rotations of terranes; Plate tectonics; Subduction rollback

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; GONDWANA; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS); SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 36549025869     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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