Oceanic crust when earth was young

Science

Volumn 292, Issue 5519, 2001, Pages 1076-1079

  Karson, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERE; GEOLOGY; HISTORY; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEDIMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0035844042     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1061081     Document Type: Short Survey

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14. Lavas: Basaltic pillow lavas, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, about 3 m wide; photo taken from submersible Alvin. Sheeted dike complex: exposed on a steep cliff, Hess Deep Rift, eastern Pacific Ocean, about 6 m wide; mosaic of digital images from Argo II ROV, about 6 m wide. Plutonic complex: interlayered gabbroic and ultramafic plutonic rocks from the Smartville Ophiolite Complex, California, about 1 m across. Residual mantle tectonites: depleted upper mantle peridotite from Bay of Islands Ophiolite Complex, Canada, about 4 m across.