Origin of intraplate volcanoes from guyot heights and oceanic paleodepth

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B2, 2000, Pages 2679-2697

  Caplan Auerbach, Jacqueline ^a   Duennebier, Fred ^a   Ito, Garrett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUYOT; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0034628324     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900386     Document Type: Article

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