The Bouvet Triple Junction Region (south Atlantic): A report on two geological expeditions

• Main Authors: Gabriela Carrara, Giovanni Bortoluzzi, Nevio Zitellini, Enrico Bonatti, Paola Fabretti, Luca Gasperini, Marco Ligi, Daniela Penitenti, P. F. Sciuto, A. Mazarovich, A. Peyve, N. Turko, S. Skolotnev, D. Gilod, BRUNELLI, Daniele, CIPRIANI, Anna
• Other Authors: Gabriela, Carrara, Giovanni, Bortoluzzi, Nevio, Zitellini, Enrico, Bonatti, Brunelli, Daniele, Cipriani, Anna, Paola, Fabretti, Luca, Gasperini, Marco, Ligi, Daniela, Penitenti, P. F., Sciuto, A., Mazarovich, A., Peyve, N., Turko, S., Skolotnev, D., Gilod
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Bouvet Triple Junction; Mid Ocean Ridge; Mid Atlantic Ridge; South West Indian Ridge; American Antarctic Ridge; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Indian; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Bouvet; Bouvet Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11380/743617; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0031400754&partnerID=40&md5=1006f0eec370e93c138073c7c5815fb3

The Bouvet Triple Junction is located where the Antarctic, south American and African plates meet in the south Atlantic. Two oceanographic expeditions were carried out in this region in 1994 and 1996 by the Institute of Marine Geology, CNR (Bologna), and the Geology Institute of the Russian Academy...