The RAMESSES experiment-II. Evidence for accumulated melt beneath a slow spreading ridge from wide-angle refraction and multichannel reflection seismic profiles

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 746-772

  Navin, D A ^a   Peirce, C ^a   Sinha, M C ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Magma chamber; Ocean bottom seismometer; Seismic structure; Slow spreading ridge

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPREADING CENTRE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032458695     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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