Combined laboratory and numerical studies of the interaction between buoyant and plate-driven upwelling beneath segmented spreading centers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue B10, 1996, Pages 22107-22122

  Magde, Laura S ^a   Kincaid, Chris ^b   Sparks, David W ^c   Detrick, Robert S ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; HEAT FLOW; MANTLE; MANTLE FLOW; MID OCEAN RIDGE; PLATE TECTONICS; RIDGE SEGMENTATION; UPWELLING;

EID: 0030435864     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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