Three-dimensional mantle upwelling, melt generation, and melt migration beneath segment slow spreading ridges

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B9, 1997, Pages 20571-20583

  Magde, Laura S ^a,c   Sparks, David W ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL ACCRETION; MANTLE PROCESSES; MANTLE UPWELLING; MELT GENERATION; MELT MIGRATION; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; SEA FLOOR SPREADING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0031423658     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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