Thermal effects of gabbro accretion from a deeper second melt lens at the fast spreading East Pacific Rise

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B5, 2001, Pages 8581-8588

  Chen, Yongshun John ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; GABBRO; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034952248     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900420     Document Type: Article

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