The Gulf of Mexico is a Jurassic backarc basin

Geosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 739-754

  Stern, Robert J ^a   Dickinson, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CRETACEOUS; JURASSIC; RIFT ZONE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; RIO GRANDE [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79251571495     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00585.1     Document Type: Note

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