New angles on South Atlantic opening
Existing models of relative motion between the South America and Africa plates significantly misrepresent the azimuth of Lower Cretaceous seafloor spreading in the South Atlantic Ocean. An improved model is derived from fits of fracture zones, magnetic reversal anomalies, and the edges of a rifted l...
Published in: | Geophysical Journal International |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2007
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Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/13411/ https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03206.x https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.23794 |