Bathymetric gradients of lineated abyssal hills: Inferring seafloor spreading vectors and a new model for hills formed at ultra-fast rates

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 98-110

  Kriner, Kelly A ^a   Pockalny, Robert A ^a   Larson, Roger L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Abyssal hills; Mid ocean ridges; Plate tectonics; Seafloor morphology; Slope analysis

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SLOPE STABILITY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

ABYSSAL HILLS; BATHYMETRIC GRADIENTS; HILL MORPHOLOGY; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; SEAFLOOR MORPHOLOGY; SLOPE ANALYSIS;

LANDFORMS;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

EID: 31344435397     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.046     Document Type: Article

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