The breakup of East Gondwana: Assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best-fit tectonic model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 808-822

  Gibbons, Ana D ^a   Whittaker, Joanne M ^a   Müller, R Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

East Antarctica; Enderby Basin; Greater India; Indian Ocean; Kerguelen; plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRETACEOUS; FRACTURE ZONE; GONDWANA; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; OCEAN BASIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ENDERBY BASIN; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU;

EID: 84876942841     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50079     Document Type: Article

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