Location of the Nubia-Somalia boundary along the Southwest Indian Ridge

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 339-342

  Lemaux II, James ^a   Gordon, Richard G ^a   Royer, Jean Yves ^a  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse oceanic plate boundaries; East African Rift; Indian Ocean; Nubia; Plate tectonics; Somalia

Indexed keywords

SUBDUCTION;

DEFORMATION; FRACTURE; STRETCHING;

GEOLOGY;

AFRICAN PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; RIFT ZONE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TECTONIC SETTING;

AFRICA; SOMALIA;

EID: 84879890771     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0339:LOTNSB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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