The relationship between buoyant mantle flow, melt migration, and gravity bull's eyes at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between 33°N and 35°N

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 59-67

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

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Convection; Gravity anomalies; Mantle; Melts; Mid Atlantic Ridge; Models; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALIES; BOUGUER ANOMALY; CONVECTION; MANTLE; MANTLE FLOW; MELT MIGRATION; MELTING; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; RIDGE SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, HAYES TRANSFORM; ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, OCEANOGRAPHER TRANSFORM;

EID: 0030775023     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00039-3     Document Type: Article

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