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Coffin et al. 2006

Coffin, M.F., Sawyer, D.S., Reston, T.J. and Stock, J.M. (2006). Continental Breakup and Sedimentary Basin Formation. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 87: doi: 10.1029/2006EO470006. issn: 0096-3941.

Earth history is punctuated by continents breaking apart and births of oceans, phenomena occurring today in places such as the high Arctic, East Africa/Red Sea, the Gulf of California, and the western Pacific near Papua New Guinea.

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	Abstract

Keywords
Tectonophysics, Continental margins, divergent (1212, 8124), Marine Geology and Geophysics, Plate tectonics (8150, 8155, 8157, 8158), Marine Geology and Geophysics, Ocean drilling

Journal
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

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