A new assessment of the abundance of serpentinite in the oceanic crust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 457-460

  Carlson, Richard L ^a   Jay Miller, D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; VELOCITY;

GABBRO; OCEANIC CRUST; SERPENTINITE;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY;

COMPOSITION OF THE OCEANIC CRUSTS; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; P-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SERPENTINIZED PERIDOTITES; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SLOW-SPREADING RIDGES;

EID: 0031074813     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00144     Document Type: Article

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