Seismic constraints on the three-dimensional geometry of low-angle intracrustal reflectors in the Southern Iberia Abyssal Plain

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 571-586

  Dean, S M ^a   Minshull, T A ^a   Whitmarsh, R B ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental margins: divergent; Continental tectonics: Extensional; Controlled source seismology; Crustal structure; Fractures and faults

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT; FRACTURE; GEOMETRY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN ABYSSAL PLAIN;

EID: 54949116205     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03869.x     Document Type: Article

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