Quantifying extension of passive margins: Implications for sea level change

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kirschner, Joshua P ^a,b,d   Kominz, Michelle A ^a   Mwakanyamale, Kisa E ^a,c  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Devon Energy   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

AUSTRALIA; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; GRID RESOLUTION; OCEAN BASINS; RIFTING PROCESS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC REFRACTION DATA; WATER DEPTH;

SEA LEVEL;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; PANGAEA; PASSIVE MARGIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIFTING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; WATER DEPTH;

AUSTRALIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77955221613     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002557     Document Type: Article

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