Ultramafic exposures and the gravity signature of the lithosphere near the Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone (Mid-atlantic ridge, 14°-16.5°N)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 411-424

  Escartín, Javier ^a   Cannat, Mathilde ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Decollement; Gravity anomalies; Mid Atlantic Ridge; Oceanic crust; Peridotites; Rheology

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY ANOMALY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PERIDOTITE; PETROLOGY; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032761890     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00169-7     Document Type: Article

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