The geodynamic province of transitional lithosphere adjacent to magma-poor continental margins

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 369, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 429-452

  Sibuet, Jean Claude ^a,b   Tucholke, Brian E ^c  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b Department of Geology and Geophysics Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ^*  (France)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMA; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; OCEANIC CRUST;

ANGOLAN MARGIN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CONGO MARGIN; GOBAN SPUR; IBERIAN PENINSULA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

EID: 84896270743     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP369.15     Document Type: Article

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