Discrete plumbing systems and heterogeneous magma sources of a 24 km3 off-axis lava field on the western flank of East Pacific Rise, 14 °S.

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 61-72

  Geshi, Nobuo ^a   Umino, Susumu ^b   Kumagai, Hidenori ^c   Sinton, John M ^d   White, Scott M ^e   Kisimoto, Kiyoyuki ^a   Hilde, Thomas W ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Pacific Rise; lava flow; mid ocean ridge; MORB; off axis volcano; Shinkai 6500

Indexed keywords

LAVA FIELD; MAGMA MIXING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

VOLCANOES;

LAVA FLOW; MAGMA; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; VOLCANOLOGY;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34249046779     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.019     Document Type: Article

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