Contribution of serpentinized ultramafics to marine magnetic anomalies at slow and intermediate spreading centres: Insights from the shape of the anomalies

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 691-701

  Dyment, Jérôme ^a,b   Arkani Hamed, Jafar ^a   Ghods, Abdolreza ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

Magnetic anomalies; Magnetization; Mid ocean ridges; Oceanic crust; Oceanic lithosphere

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIZATION; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OCEAN CRUST; SERPENTINE; SERPENTINITE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS;

EID: 0030842810     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb04504.x     Document Type: Article

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