Development of en echelon magmatic segments along oblique spreading ridges

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 599-602

  van Wijk, Jolante W ^a,b   Blackman, D K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mid ocean ridges; Numerical models; Oblique extension; Plate boundaries; Reykjanes Ridge; Seafloor spreading; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

OBLIQUE EXTENSION; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

DEFORMATION; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFT ZONE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; UPWELLING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; MOHNS RIDGE; NORWEGIAN SEA; REYKJANES RIDGE;

EID: 34547138404     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23294A.1     Document Type: Article

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