The relative importance of plate-driven and buoyancy-driven flow at mid-ocean ridges

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 16177-16193

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D MODELLING; BUOYANT FLOW; MANTLE FLOW; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; PLATE MOTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELLING;

EID: 0030485426     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb01184     Document Type: Article

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