Correlated geophysical, geochemical, and volcanological manifestations of plume-ridge interaction along the Galápagos Spreading Center

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Detrick, R S ^a   Sinton, J M ^b   Ito, G ^b   Canales, J P ^a   Behn, M ^a   Blacic, T ^c   Cushman, B ^a   Dixon, J E ^d   Graham, D W ^e   Mahoney, J J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hotspots; Mantle plumes; mid ocean ridges

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BOUGUER GRAVITY ANOMALIES; GENERATION PROCESS; HOTSPOTS; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; SOURCE COMPOSITION; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 34250830962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GC000350     Document Type: Article

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