Control of the location of the volcanic front in island arcs by aqueous fluid connectivity in the mantle wedge

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6750, 1999, Pages 259-262

  Mibe, Kenji ^a   Fujii, Toshitsugu ^a   Yasuda, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ISLAND ARC; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VOLCANO; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; DECOMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEA; VOLCANO;

EID: 0033575955     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45762     Document Type: Article

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