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02 Oct 2014
Research article |
| 02 Oct 2014
Asymmetry of high-velocity lower crust on the South Atlantic rifted margins and implications for the interplay of magmatism and tectonics in continental breakup
K. Becker
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
D. Franke
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
R. Trumbull
German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany
M. Schnabel
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
I. Heyde
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
B. Schreckenberger
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
H. Koopmann
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany
German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany
W. Jokat
Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremen, Germany
C. M. Krawczyk
Leibniz Institute für Applied Geophysics (LIAG), Hannover, Germany
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