The East ridge system 28.5-32°S East Pacific rise: Implications for overlapping spreading center development

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 13-31

  Martínez, Fernando ^a   Hey, Richard N ^a   Johnson, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

East Pacific Rise; Plate boundaries; Plate tectonics; Sea floor spreading

Indexed keywords

PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0031430979     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00095-2     Document Type: Article

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