Thin oceanic crust and flood basalts: India-Seychelles breakup

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Armitage, J J ^a,b   Collier, J S ^a   Minshull, T A ^c   Henstock, T J ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Indian continental margin; melt generation; nonvolcanic passive margin; rifting; volcanic passive margin

Indexed keywords

BASALT; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MELT GENERATION; NONVOLCANIC PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; VOLCANIC PASSIVE MARGIN;

GEODYNAMICS;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FLOOD BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UNDERPLATING;

SEYCHELLES;

EID: 79957503321     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003316     Document Type: Article

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