Geophysical characterisation of the ocean-continent transition at magma-poor rifted margins

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 382-393

  Minshull, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Marine seismics; Ocean continent transition; Rifted margin

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FRACTURE ZONE; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE; RIFTING; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 65849395035     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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