Oblique rifting of the equatorial atlantic: Why there is no saharan atlantic ocean

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 211-214

  Heine, Christian ^a   Brune, Sascha ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; DYNAMIC COMPETITIONS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE KINEMATICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

KINEMATICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CRETACEOUS; OBLIQUE FAULT; OCEAN BASIN; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84896692571     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35082.1     Document Type: Article

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