Evidence for the protracted construction of slow-spread oceanic crust by small magmatic injections

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-55

  Meurer, William P ^a,c   Gee, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulates; Kane fracture zone; Mid Atlantic Ridge; Oceanic crust; Paleomagnetism; Sills

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; CUMULATE; FRACTURE ZONE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOMAGNETISM; SPREADING CENTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036321113     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00660-X     Document Type: Article

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