Implications for crustal accretion at fast spreading ridges from observations in Jurassic oceanic crust in the western Pacific

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Formation microscanner; Hole 801C; Magmatism; Ocean crust; Ocean drilling program; Seafloor spreading

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645385159     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GC000274     Document Type: Article

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