Plume-ridge interactions of the Discovery and Shona mantle plumes with the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (40°-55° S)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B2, 1999, Pages 2941-2962

  Douglass, Jill ^a   Schilling, Jean Guy ^a   Fontignie, Denis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MANTLE PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0033540712     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb02642     Document Type: Article

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