The African plate: A history of oceanic crust accretion and subduction since the Jurassic

Tectonophysics

Volumn 604, Issue , 2013, Pages 4-25

  Gaina, Carmen ^a   Torsvik, Trond H ^a,b,c   van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^d   Medvedev, Sergei ^a   Werner, Stephanie C ^a   Labails, Cinthia ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Geodynamics   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e BEICIP FRANLAB   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Oceanic crust; Palaeostress; Relative and absolute motion

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; ABSOLUTE-MOTION; AFRICA; CONTINENT-OCEAN BOUNDARY; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; OCEANIC CRUST; PALAEOSTRESS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

GEOPHYSICS;

PHYSICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AFRICAN PLATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; JURASSIC; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOSTRESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 84884411016     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.05.037     Document Type: Article

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