Is there continental crust underneath the northern Natal Valley and the Mozambique Coastal Plains?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Leinweber, Volker Thor ^a   Jokat, W ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

COASTAL PLAIN; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; GRAVITY DATA; GRAVITY FIELD; MAGNETIC DATA; MOZAMBIQUE; OCEANIC CRUST; POTENTIAL FIELD;

LANDFORMS;

COASTAL PLAIN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKENING; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GRAVITY FIELD; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC METHOD; MONOCLINE; OCEANIC CRUST;

AFRICA; INDIAN OCEAN; MOZAMBIQUE RIDGE; NATAL VALLEY;

PELAGIA;

EID: 79960800887     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047659     Document Type: Article

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