The Ionian Sea: The oldest in situ ocean fragment of the world?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Speranza, Fabio ^a   Minelli, Liliana ^a   Pignatelli, Alessandro ^a   Chiappini, Massimo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL PLAIN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DATA INTERPRETATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MESOZOIC; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEAFLOOR; GEOMETRY; HEAT FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; SERPENTINE;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84870872196     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009475     Document Type: Article

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