Integrated crustal thickness mapping and plate reconstructions for the high Arctic

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 310-321

  Alvey, A ^a   Gaina, C ^b   Kusznir, N J ^a   Torsvik, T H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; crustal thickness; gravity inversion; plate reconstructions

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA BASIN; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; END MEMBERS; EURASIA; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY INVERSION; GRAVITY INVERSIONS; HIGH ARCTIC; HYBRID MODEL; LATE CRETACEOUS; LOMONOSOV RIDGE; MOHO DEPTH; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERES; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; PLATE RECONSTRUCTIONS; RIFTED CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TECTONIC HISTORY; THERMAL MODELLING;

FORECASTING; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HYBRID SENSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REPAIR; RESTORATION; TECTONICS;

EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORRECTION; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; INVERSE PROBLEM; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARCTIC;

EID: 52749092986     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.036     Document Type: Article

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