Detailed structure of the top of the melt body beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°40′N from waveform inversion of seismic reflection data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B9, 1997, Pages 20287-20304

  Collier, J S ^a,b   Singh, S C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA CHAMBERS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0031413111     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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