Birth of an ocean in the Red Sea: Initial pangs

Birth of an ocean in the Red Sea: Initial pangs

We obtained areal variations of crustal thickness, magnetic intensity, and degree of melting of the sub‐axial upwelling mantle at Thetis and Nereus Deeps, the two northernmost axial segments of initial oceanic crustal accretion in the Red Sea, where Arabia is separating from Africa. The initial empl...

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Main Authors: Marco Ligi, Enrico Bonatti, Giovanni Bortoluzzi, Anna Cipriani, Luca Cocchi, Fabio Caratori Tontini, Eugenio Carminati, Luisa Ottolini, Antonio Schettino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-08-01
Series:Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Subjects:
Red Sea
gravity and magnetics
magma genesis and partial melting
mantle processes
transition from continental to oceanic rift
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GC004155
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