Locating the spreading axis along 80 km of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Atlantis Transform

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B4, 1999, Pages 7599-7612

  Smith, Deborah K ^a   Tivey, Maurice A ^a   Schouten, Hans ^a   Cann, Johnson R ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSURE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIS TRANSFORM; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0033541413     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jb900064     Document Type: Article

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