Could the mantle have caused subsidence of the Congo Basin?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 514-517, Issue , 2012, Pages 62-80

  Buiter, Susanne J H ^a,b,c   Steinberger, Bernhard ^b,c,d   Medvedev, Sergei ^b   Tetreault, Joya L ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Centre of Advanced Study   (Norway)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congo basin; Congo craton; Gravity anomalies; Intracratonic basin; Mantle flow; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CONGO BASINS; CONGO CRATON; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; INTRACRATONIC BASIN; MANTLE FLOW;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CENOZOIC; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEPOSITION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; INTRACRATONIC BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MESOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; RIFTING; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; UPPER MANTLE;

CONGO BASIN; CONGO CRATON;

EID: 84855325398     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.09.024     Document Type: Article

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