Crustal thickness anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean basin from gravity analysis

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Tingting ^a   Lin, Jian ^b   Tucholke, Brian ^b   Chen, Yongshun John ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

crustal thickness; gravity; hot spot; North Atlantic

Indexed keywords

TECTONICS;

CANARY ISLANDS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FRACTURE ZONE; GRAVITY; GRAVITY ANALYSIS; HOT SPOT; ICELANDS; ISOLATED MELTS; MAGMATISMS; MELT PRODUCTION; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEAN CRUST; SEAMOUNT CHAINS; TIME-SCALES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY SURVEY; HOT SPOT; OCEANIC CRUST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79953701090     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003402     Document Type: Article

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