Seismological evidence for three-dimensional melt migration beneath the East Pacific Rise

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6639, 1997, Pages 259-262

  Dunn, Robert A ^a   Toomey, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMA CHAMBER; MANTLE; MANTLE PROCESSES; MELT MIGRATION; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; FLOW; GEOLOGY; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TOMOGRAPHY;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0030854717     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40831     Document Type: Article

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