Crenulated seafloor: Evidence for spreading-rate dependent structure of mantle upwelling and melting beneath a mid-oceanic spreading center

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 129, Issue 1-4, 1995, Pages 73-84

  Morgan, Jason Phipps ^a   Parmentier, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRENULATION SPREADING CENTRE; MANTLE PROCESSES; MANTLE UPWELLING; MID OCEAN RIDGE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SPREADING CENTRES; SPREADING RATE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; INDIAN OCEAN, SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 0028844851     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)00227-P     Document Type: Article

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