Geophysical evidence from the MELT area for compositional controls on oceanic plates

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7056, 2005, Pages 249-252

  Evans, Rob L ^a   Hirth, Greg ^a   Baba, Kiyoshi ^b   Forsyth, Don ^c   Chave, Alan ^a   Mackie, Randall ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GSY USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COOLING SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MANGANESE NODULES; MARINE BIOLOGY; MELTING; SEISMIC WAVES;

COMPOSITIONAL CONTROLS; CONDUCTIVE COOLING MODELS; MELTING PROCESSES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OCEANIC PLATES;

TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

WATER;

MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MELT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMIC DATA;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; IMAGING; MELTING POINT; MODEL; OCEANIC REGIONS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 24744449094     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04014     Document Type: Article

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