Focused magma supply at the intersection of the Cobb hotspot and the Juan de Fuca ridge

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  West, Michael ^a   Menke, William ^a   Tolstoy, Maya ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MAGMA; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; HOT SPOT; MAGMA RESERVOIRS; MAGMATISMS;

VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HOT SPOT; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141976740     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017104     Document Type: Article

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