Melt to mush variations in crustal magma properties along the ridge crest at the southern East Pacific Rise

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6696, 1998, Pages 874-878

  Singh, S C ^a   Kent, G M ^b   Collier, J S ^a   Harding, A J ^b   Orcutt, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL ACCRETION; ERUPTION; MAGMATISM; MELT;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLCANO;

PACIFIC OCEAN, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0032572748     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29740     Document Type: Article

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