Seismoacoustic evidence for volcanic activity on the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Schlindwein, Vera ^a   Müller, Christian ^a,b   Jokat, Wilfried ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FIELAX Gesellschaft fur wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; EARTHQUAKES; EXPLOSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; VOLCANOES; WATER WAVES;

LAVA FLOW; SEISMOACOUSTIC EVIDENCE; SEISMOLOGICAL ARRAYS; SUBMARINE VOLCANISM; VOLCANIC ACTIVITY;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE SWARM; SPREADING CENTER; VOLCANISM;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIAN BASIN; GAKKEL RIDGE; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27744562735     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023767     Document Type: Article

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