Mantle flow and melting underneath oblique and ultraslow mid-ocean ridges

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Montési, Laurent G J ^a,b   Behn, Mark D ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; MANTLE FLOW; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; MORPHOLOGY; OBLIQUE FAULT; PERIDOTITE; SPREADING CENTER; THERMAL STRUCTURE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 39549122810     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031067     Document Type: Article

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