Gravity modeling of a volcanically active site on the East Pacific Rise axis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 57-68

  Stevenson, J Mark ^a,b   Hildebrand, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DENSITY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY MODELLING; MAGMA BUOYANCY; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MODELLING; VOLCANISM;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0029756215     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00074-7     Document Type: Article

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