A geophysical study of the Atlantis-Meteor seamount complex

• Main Author: Verhoef, J.
• Other Authors: IVAU: Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen Utrecht, Applied geophysics, Collette, B.J.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen RUU 1984
• Subjects: seamounts; geophysics; geology; North Atlantic Ocean; Meteor Seamount; Turcotte; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/314977

The depth of the ocean floor in general increases systematically with increasing crustal age (e.g. Sclater and Francheteau, 1970; Parsons and Sclater, 1977). This increase of depth further away from a mid-ocean ridge crest can be explained by thermal models for the evolution of the oceanic lithosphe...