Seismic analysis of the axial magma chamber reflector along the southern East Pacific Rise from conventional reflection profiling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue B10, 1996, Pages 22087-22105

  Hussenoeder, Stefan A ^a   Collins, John A ^a   Kent, Graham M ^a,b   Detrick, Robert S ^a   Harding, Alistair J ^b   Orcutt, John A ^b   Mutter, John C ^c   Buhl, Peter ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA CHAMBERS; MAGMA SILL; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; SEISMIC ANALYSIS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0030435685     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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