The Namibian passive volcanic margin - Investigations of the South Atlantic Opening with Magnetotelluric and Gravity data

• Main Author: Franz, Gesa
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Course of study: MSc Geophyscis; Three Arms; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/41180/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/41180/1/Franz,Gesa_Masterthesis_2017_FINAL.pdf

The source of magmatic features along the Namibian continental margin, and therefore the processes which lead to the opening of the South Atlantic ocean, are still debated controversially. One big question is weather hotspot volcanism was fed by a deep reaching plume or by heterogeneities of the mid...