Depth, age and dynamic topography of oceanic lithosphere beneath heavily sedimented Atlantic margins

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 137-151

  Winterbourne, Jeffrey ^a   Crosby, Alistair ^a   White, Nicky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; dynamic topography; lithosphere; mantle convection; ocean depth age; rifted margins

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE CONVECTION; OCEAN DEPTH-AGE; RIFTED MARGINS;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DATING METHOD; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 69149096218     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.019     Document Type: Article

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