A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 223-227

  Torsvik, Trond H ^a,b,c,d   Amundsen, Hans ^e   Hartz, Ebbe H ^a,f   Corfu, Fernando ^a   Kusznir, Nick ^g   Gaina, Carmen ^a,b   Doubrovine, Pavel V ^a,b   Steinberger, Bernhard ^a,b,h   Ashwal, Lewis D ^d   Jamtveit, Bjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e EPX   (Norway)

^f Det Norske Oljeselskap   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^h GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FRAGMENTATION; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; LAVA; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; PRECAMBRIAN; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

INDIAN OCEAN; SEYCHELLES;

EID: 84874638078     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1736     Document Type: Article

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