Determining the cooling history of in situ lower oceanic crust-Atlantis Bank, SW Indian Ridge

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 145-160

  John, Barbara E ^a   Foster, David A ^b   Murphy, John M ^a   Cheadle, Michael J ^a   Baines, A Graham ^a   Fanning, C Mark ^c   Copeland, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling; Lower oceanic crust; Ocean Drilling Program Site 735B; Thermochronometry

Indexed keywords

COOLING; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SPREADING CENTER; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 2342463078     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.02.014     Document Type: Article

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