Could peridotite hydration reactions have provided a contributory driving force for Cenozoic uplift and accelerated subsidence along the margins of the North Atlantic and Labrador Sea?

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 21-28

  Skelton, Alasdair ^a   Jakobsson, Martin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FRACTURE ZONE; HYDRATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PERIDOTITE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SERPENTINIZATION; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 45449085809     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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