Gravity modeling of the ocean-continent transition along the South Atlantic margins

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Dragoi Stavar, Diana ^a,b   Hall, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRUSTAL THINNING; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; HOT SPOT; ISLAND ARC; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RIFTING; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; UNDERPLATING; UPPER MANTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); RIO GRANDE RISE; WALVIS RIDGE;

EID: 72049107707     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB006014     Document Type: Article

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