Initial burst of oceanic crust accretion in the Red sea due to edgedriven mantle convection

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1019-1022

  Ligi, Marco ^a   Bonatti, Enrico ^a,b   Tontini, Fabio Caratori ^c   Cipriani, Anna ^b,d   Cocchi, Luca ^e   Schettino, Antonio ^f   Bortoluzzi, Giovanni ^a   Ferrante, Valentina ^a   Khalil, Samir ^g   Mitchell, Neil C ^h   Rasul, Najeeb ⁱ  

^a ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e Istituto Nazionale di Geofi Sica e Vulcanologia   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^g SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ SAUDI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; MAGNETIC INTENSITIES; MANTLE CONVECTION; OCEANIC CRUST; PASSIVE PLATES; RED SEA; RIFT PROPAGATION; SUPERCONTINENTS;

LITHOLOGY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETION; ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; MANTLE CONVECTION; OCEANIC CRUST; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEAFLOOR; SUPERCONTINENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 84857481120     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32243.1     Document Type: Article

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