The enigmatic Chad lineament revisited with global gravity and gravity-gradient fields

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 329-341

  Braitenberg, Carla ^a   Mariani, Patrizia ^a   Ebbing, Jörg ^b,c   Sprlak, Michal ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d Research Institute of Geodesy and Cartography   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAVITY FIELD; LINEAMENT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PRECISION; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CHAD;

EID: 84055176202     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP357.18     Document Type: Article

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