Early Central Atlantic Ocean seafloor spreading history

Geosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 282-298

  Bird, D E ^a,c   Hall, S A ^a   Burke, K ^a   Casey, J F ^a   Sawyer, D S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Bird Geophysical   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric spreading; Central atlantic; Magnetics; Reconstruction; Ridge jumps; Seafloor spreading

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; CENOZOIC; FRACTURE ZONE; GONDWANA; JURASSIC; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); ATLANTIS FRACTURE ZONE; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 62249094935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00047.1     Document Type: Article

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