Advanced insights into magmatism and volcanism of the Mozambique Ridge and Mozambique Basin in the view of new potential field data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 158-180

  König, Matthias ^a   Jokat, Wilfried ^b  

^a RWE POWER AG   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Antarctica; Large igneous provinces; Magnetic anomalies: modelling and interpretation; Marine magnetics and palaeomagnetics; Oceanic plateaus and microcontinents

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EMPLACEMENT; FRACTURE ZONE; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MAGMATISM; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MESOZOIC; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE TECTONICS; PLATEAU; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANISM;

INDIAN OCEAN; MOZAMBIQUE BASIN; MOZAMBIQUE RIDGE;

EID: 73049085043     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04433.x     Document Type: Article

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