Insights from the Jan Mayen system in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea-II. Architecture of a microcontinent

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 413-435

  Peron Pinvidic, Gwenn ^a   Gernigon, Laurent ^a   Gaina, Carmen ^b   Ball, Philip ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Continental margins: divergent; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Oceanic plateaus and microcontinents

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DRIVING MECHANISM; EASTERN SIDE; FAR FIELD; GREENLAND; ISOLATION PROCESS; MANTLE PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OCEANIC PLATEAUS AND MICROCONTINENTS; POTENTIAL FIELD; SEISMIC MAPPING; SEISMIC REFRACTION; WESTERN SIDE;

SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARCHITECTURE;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; JAN MAYEN; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84867404408     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05623.x     Document Type: Article

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