Correlations of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt chemistry with the geoid

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 37-55

  Lecroart, Pascal ^a,b   Albarède, Francis ^b   Cazenave, Anny ^a  

^a GRGS UMR 39   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Geoid; Major elements; Mid ocean ridge basalts

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOID; MORB; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 0031408780     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00140-4     Document Type: Article

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