Transform fault effect on mantle melting in the MARK area (Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Kane transform)

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1139-1142

  Ghose, Indraneel ^a   Cannat, Mathilde ^a   Seyler, Monique ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELTING; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MANTLE MELTING; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; MELT MIGRATION; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; MINERAL COMPOSITION; SEISMIC RECORDS; THERMAL REGIMES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; MELTING;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE; MELTING; PERIDOTITE; THERMAL REGIME; TRANSFORM FAULT; MANTLE PROCESSES; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; ATLANTIC; KANE FRACTURE ZONE;

EID: 0030429355     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<1139:TFEOMM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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