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Minshull 1993
Minshull, T.A. (1993). Wide-angle imaging of reflectors in Mesozoic oceanic crust. Geophysical Research Letters 20: doi: 10.1029/93GL01435. issn: 0094-8276.

Two-ship synthetic aperture data from Mesozoic oceanic crust in the western North Atlantic contain wide-angle reflections and refractions from oceanic layer 2 at the longer offsets (6--9 km). With appropriate velocity filtering to remove cross-cutting reflections from the sediment column, the wide-angle data may be stacked to produce images of the upper oceanic crust. Some dipping events are imaged both near normal incidence and at wide-angle, and are most likely due to zones of anomalously high impedance. Such zones may be generated by hydrothermal alteration of material in fault zones generated near the spreading center. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1993

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Keywords
Exploration Geophysics, Oceanic structures, Exploration Geophysics, Seismic methods, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Marine seismics, Seismology, Structure of the crust
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Geophysical Research Letters
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American Geophysical Union
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