The opening of the central segment of the South Atlantic: Symmetry and the extension discrepancy

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-206

  Reston, Tim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angola; Brazil; Continental breakup; Evaporites; Rifting; South Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL THINNING; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EVAPORITES; EXTENSION DISCREPANCY; GLOBAL SEA LEVELS; LARGE PARTS; MAGMATISMS; NARROW LINES; NORTH ATLANTIC; SOUTH ATLANTIC;

SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE; WATER LEVELS;

TECTONICS;

APTIAN; BERRIASIAN; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THINNING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGMATISM; OCEAN BASIN; RIFTING; SEA LEVEL;

ANGOLA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BRAZIL;

EID: 77955492878     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-907     Document Type: Article

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