Morphology of the Northeastern Mohns Ridge: Results from SeaMARC II surveys in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea

Exploration and Mining Geology

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 323-339

  Crane, Kathleen ^a,b,c   Doss, Hany ^a   Vogt, Peter ^b   Sundvor, Eirik ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; MOHNS RIDGE; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0006424248     PISSN: 09641823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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