Abundant seamounts of the Rano Rahi Seamount Field near the Southern East Pacific Rise, 15° S to 19° S

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-52

  Scheirer, Daniel S ^a,b   Macdonald, Ken C ^a   Forsyth, Donald W ^b   Shen, Yang ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

East Pacific rise; MELT; Seafloor volcanism; Seamounts

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; MANTLE PROCESSES; MID OCEAN RIDGE; SEAMOUNT; SEAMOUNTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPREADING CENTRES; VOLCANISM;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE, RANO RAHI FIELD;

EID: 0029729818     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00286202     Document Type: Article

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