Architecture of rifted continental margins and break-up evolution: Insights from the South Atlantic, North Atlantic and Red Sea-Gulf of aden conjugate margins

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 369, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 497-535

  Mohriak, Webster Ueipass ^a   Leroy, Sylvie ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN PLATE; ARABIAN PLATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GONDWANA; OCEANIC CRUST; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); CANADA; GULF OF ADEN; IBERIAN MARGIN; INDIAN OCEAN; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 84896270792     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP369.17     Document Type: Article

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