Diffuse impact of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with the Romanche transform: An ultracold ridge-transform intersection

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 8043-8054

  Bonatti, E ^a,b   Ligi, M ^a   Carrara, G ^a   Gasperini, L ^a   Turko, N ^c   Perfiliev, S ^c   Peyve, A ^c   Sciuto, P F ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DIFFUSE IMPACT; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; RIDGE/TRANSFORM INTERSECTION; RIFT VALLEY; SEA FLOOR TOPOGRAPHY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRANSFORM FAULTS; ULTRACOLD RIDGE- TRANSFORM INTERSECTION;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, ROMANCHE TRANSFORM;

EID: 0029729774     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb02249     Document Type: Article

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