Seismic reflection images of the Moho underlying melt sills at the East Pacific Rise

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7100, 2006, Pages 287-290

  Singh, S C ^a,b   Harding, A J ^c   Kent, G M ^c   Sinha, M C ^d   Combier, V ^a   Bazin, S ^a   Tong, C H ^b   Pye, J W ^b   Barton, P J ^b   Hobbs, R W ^e   White, R S ^b   Orcutt, J A ^c  

^a IPG Paris   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EARTH (PLANET); IMAGE ANALYSIS; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES;

CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA SILLS; MOHO REFLECTION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ACCRETION; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; MAGMA CHAMBER; MELT; MOHO; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SILL; SPREADING CENTER;

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MELTING POINT; NATURAL SCIENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33746357942     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04939     Document Type: Article

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