The effects of deep damp melting on mantle flow and melt generation beneath mid-ocean ridges

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 339-356

  Braun, Michael G ^a   Hirth, G ^a   Parmentier, E M ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Mantle; Melting; Mid ocean ridges; Rheology

Indexed keywords

MANTLE SOURCE; MELTING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PETROGENESIS;

EID: 0034732176     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00015-7     Document Type: Article

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