Mantle upwelling and melting beneath slow spreading centers: Effects of variable rheology and melt productivity

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 589-604

  Choblet, G ^a   Parmentier, E M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magmatic segmentation; Mantle; Melt; Mid ocean ridges; Rheology

Indexed keywords

MANTLE; MELT; RHEOLOGY; SPREADING CENTER; UPWELLING;

EID: 0035084257     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00330-7     Document Type: Article

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