Slow cooling of middle and lower oceanic crust inferred from multicomponent magnetizations of gabbroic rocks from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Kane fracture zone (MARK) area

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2002, Pages

  Gee, J ^a   Meurer, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gabbro; Magnetization; Ocean crust; Thermal history

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE ZONE; GABBRO; MAGNETIZATION; OCEANIC CRUST; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SPREADING CENTER; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0037055350     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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