Basaltic lava domes, lava lakes, and volcanic segmentation on the southern East Pacific Rise

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B10, 2000, Pages 23519-23536

  White, Scott M ^a   Macdonald, Ken C ^a   Haymon, Rachel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAVA FLOW; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PILLOW LAVA; SEGMENTATION; SPREADING CENTER; VOLCANISM;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033724381     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900248     Document Type: Article

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