Reply to comment by D. Aslanian and M. Moulin on 'A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin'

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-34

  Torsvik, Trond H ^a,b,c   Rousse, Sonia ^a,d,e,f   Smethurst, Mark A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Continental margins: divergent; Palaeomagnetism applied to tectonics; South America

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CONTINENTAL MARGINS: DIVERGENT; PALAEOMAGNETISM; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ATLANTIC;

GEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

APTIAN; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 78349283119     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04728.x     Document Type: Article

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