Evidence of continental breakup from the Newfoundland rifted margin (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 210): Lower cretaceous seafloor formed by exhumation of subcontinental mantle lithosphere and the transition to seafloor spreading

Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: Scientific Results

Volumn 210, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Robertson, Alastair H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.2973/odp.proc.sr.210.104.2007     Document Type: Article

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