North Atlantic topographic and geoid anomalies: The result of a narrow ocean basin and cratonic roots?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 388, Issue , 2005, Pages 653-664

  King, Scott D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratons; Geoid; North Atlantic; Small scale convection

Indexed keywords

TOPOGRAPHY;

CRATONS; GEOID; GEOID ANOMALIES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; PROMINENT FEATURES; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; SMALL-SCALE FLOWS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONVECTION; CRATON; GEOID; GLACIAL REBOUND; OCEAN BASIN; SWELL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874978479     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2388-4.653     Document Type: Article

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