Age dependent porosity of young upper oceanic crust: Insights from seafloor gravity studies of recent volcanic eruptions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 20-1-20-4

  Pruis, Matthew J ^a   Johnson, H Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); POROSITY; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

CRUST;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AGE; DENSITY; GRAVITY SURVEY; OCEANIC CRUST; POROSITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

GORDA RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036522227     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001gl013977     Document Type: Article

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