Factors influencing magmatism during continental breakup: new insights from a wide-angle seismic experiment across the conjugate seychelles-indian margins

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Collier, J S ^a   Minshull, T A ^b   Hammond, J O S ^c   Whitmarsh, R B ^b   Kendall, J M ^c   Sansom, V ^a   Lane, C I ^b   Rumpker, G ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DECCAN TRAPS; FLOOD BASALT; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OCEANIC CRUST; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TRAVEL TIME;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; SEYCHELLES;

EID: 67649863330     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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