Birth of an intraoceanic spreading center

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 767-770

  Barckhausen, Udo ^a   Ranero, César R ^b   Cande, Steven C ^c   Engels, Martin ^a   Weinrebe, Wilhelm ^d  

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

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Pacific; Farallon breakup; Galapagos hotspot; Magnetic anomalies

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; CENTRAL PACIFIC; CLOCKWISE; CRUSTAL EXTENSIONS; FARALLON BREAKUP; GALAPAGOS HOTSPOT; KINEMATIC; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; NAZCA PLATES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERES; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE MOTIONS; PLATE VELOCITIES; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SOUTH AMERICA;

TECTONICS;

COCOS PLATE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; HOT SPOT; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MIOCENE; NAZCA PLATE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE MOTION; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 54949104690     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25056A.1     Document Type: Article

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