Frozen magma lenses below the oceanic crust

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7054, 2005, Pages 1149-1152

  Nedimović, Mladen R ^a   Carbotte, Suzanne M ^a   Harding, Alistair J ^b   Detrick, Robert S ^c   Canales, J Pablo ^c   Diebold, John B ^a   Kent, Graham M ^b   Tischer, Michael ^a   Babcock, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DATA REDUCTION; LENSES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOLOGY;

MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC DATA; OCEANIC CRUST;

EARTH (PLANET);

CRYSTALLIZATION; LOWER CRUST; MAGMA; OCEANIC CRUST;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MELTING POINT; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 24144482687     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03944     Document Type: Article

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