Toward a minimum change model for recent plate motions: Calibrating seafloor spreading rates for outward displacement

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 825-841

  Demets, Chuck ^a   Wilson, D S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Marine magnetics and palaeomagnetics; Mid ocean ridge processes; Plate motions

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SPREADING CENTER; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 43449122990     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03836.x     Document Type: Article

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