Evolution of the East Pacific Rise at 16°-19° S since 5 Ma: Bisection of Overlapping Spreading Centers by new, rapidly propagating ridge segments

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-84

  Cormier, Marie Helene ^a,b   Scheirer, Daniel S ^a,c   Macdonald, Ken C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuity migration; East Pacific Rise; Side scan sonar data

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY MIGRATION; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OVERLAPPING SPREADING CENTRE; OVERLAPPING SPREADING CENTRES; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SIDESCAN SONAR;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0029774531     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00286203     Document Type: Article

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