Focused mantle upwelling below mid‐ocean ridges due to feedback between viscosity and melting

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1989, Pages 641-644

  Buck, W Roger ^a   Su, Wusi ^b  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUST FORMATION; MANTLE UPWELLING; MID OCEAN RIDGE; PARTIAL MELT; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0024927276     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/GL016i007p00641     Document Type: Article

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