Bathymetric roughness of the Southeast Indian Ridge: Implications for crustal accretion at intermediate spreading rate mid-ocean ridges

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B8, 1997, Pages 17697-17711

  Ma, L Ying ^a   Cochran, James R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BATHYMETRY; CRUSTAL ACCRETION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; ROUGHNESS; SEA FLOOR SPREADING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

INDIAN OCEAN, SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 0031430985     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb01280     Document Type: Article

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