Comment on 'Breakup of Pangaea and plate kinematics of the central Atlantic and Atlas regions' by Antonio Schettino and Eugenio Turco

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 96-98

  Labails, Cinthia ^a   Roest, Walter R ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Fractures and faults; Plate motions

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL ATLANTIC; CENTRAL ATLANTIC OCEAN; FIELD DATA; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; PLATE KINEMATICS; PLATE MOTIONS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD;

KINEMATICS;

FRACTURE;

BLOCK ROTATION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; FRACTURE ZONE; PANGAEA; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); ATLAS MOUNTAINS;

EID: 78349258635     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04740.x     Document Type: Article

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