Subsurface structure of the "petit-spot" volcanoes on the northwestern Pacific Plate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2007, Pages

  Fujiwara, Toshiya ^a   Hirano, Naoto ^b   Abe, Natsue ^a   Takizawa, Kaoru ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CENTRAL VENT; INTRA-PLATE VOLCANISM; MAGMA INTRUSION;

VOLCANOES;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LAVA; MAGMA; PACIFIC PLATE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SILL; VOLCANISM; VOLCANO;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 34548631765     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030439     Document Type: Article

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