Plate motions and continental extension at the rifting to spreading transition in Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea: Can oceanic plate kinematics be extended into continental rifts?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 458, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 82-95

  Kington, Joe D ^a   Goodliffe, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brittle faulting; Continental rifting; Papua New Guinea; Rifting to seafloor spreading transition; Subsidence; Woodlark Basin

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; KINEMATICS; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SUBSIDENCE;

CORAL SEA; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOLOMON SEA; WOODLARK BASIN;

EID: 52049106609     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.027     Document Type: Article

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