Lithospheric transition from the Variscan Iberian Massif to the Jurassic oceanic crust of the Central Atlantic

Tectonophysics

Volumn 386, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 97-115

  Fernandez M ^a   Marzan I ^a   Torne, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Depleted mantle; Geoid; Gravity; Heat flow; Plate boundary; SW Iberia

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OCEANIC CRUST; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 4544364762     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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