The composition and structure of volcanic rifted continental margins in the North Atlantic: Further insight from shear waves

Tectonophysics

Volumn 508, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 22-33

  Eccles, Jennifer D ^a   White, Robert S ^a   Christie, Philip A F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

North Atlantic Igneous Province; Ocean Bottom Seismometers; Seismic tomography; Volcanic rifted continental margin

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENT-OCEAN TRANSITION; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FLOOD BASALT; GRID-BASED; HIGH QUALITY; MESOZOIC; MODEL SPACES; MONTE CARLO; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC IGNEOUS PROVINCE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETERS; PALEOCENE; RIFTED CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHARP TRANSITION; TRAVEL TIME; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MODEL;

BASALT; LITHOLOGY; MAGNESIUM; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS; VELOCITY; VOLCANOES;

SHEAR FLOW;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FLOOD BASALT; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MAFIC ROCK; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFT ZONE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPH; TRAVEL TIME; VOLCANISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 78649431014     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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