Seismic reflection evidence for a Dangerous Grounds miniplate: No extrusion origin for the South China Sea

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Clift, Peter ^a,b,c   Lee, Gwang H ^d   Anh Duc, Nguyan ^e   Barckhausen, Udo ^f   Van Long, Hoang ^a   Zhen, Sun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^d Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

^e Vietnam Petroleum Institute   (Viet Nam)

^f FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; EXTRUSION; FAULT ZONE; PLATE MOTION; RECONSTRUCTION; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 50949126961     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002216     Document Type: Article

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