Partial melting beneath a Mid-Atlantic Ridge segment detected by teleseismic PKP delays

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 463-466

  Forsyth, Donald W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

MELT PRODUCTION; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PARTIAL MELTING; RAPID VARIATION; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; TELESEISMIC EARTHQUAKES; TRANSPORT ZONE;

EARTHQUAKES;

MANTLE PROCESSES; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PARTIAL MELTING; PKP PHASE; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SEISMICITY; TELESEISMIC PKP DELAYS;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0029730183     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00379     Document Type: Article

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