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Record Nr.

UNINA9910703946603321

Titolo

Age of the ocean floor / / World Data Center-A for Marine Geology and Geophysics ; published by the National Geophysical Data Center ; age-color overlay image by R. Dietmar Mueller, University of Sydney ; combined age-relief images by Peter W. Sloss, NOAA-NESDIS-NGDC ; contributing authors and institutions, R.D. Mueller ... [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, CO : , : National Geophysical Data Center, , [1996]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 map) : color

Collana

World Data Center-A for Marine Geology and Geophysics report ; ; MGG-12

Soggetti

Geology, Stratigraphic

Submarine geology

Ocean bottom

Maps.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale cartografico a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Depth shown by satellite imagery.

Title from title screen (viewed Jan. 15, 2014).

"The color image representing crustal ages was created from a digital age grid of the ocean floor with a grid node interval of 0.1 degrees using a self-consistent set of global isochrons and associated plate reconstruction poles. ..."

Includes 5 ancillary hemispheric maps.