Explosive volcanism on the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean

Nature

Volumn 453, Issue 7199, 2008, Pages 1236-1238

  Sohn, Robert A ^a   Willis, Claire ^a   Humphris, Susan ^a   Shank, Timothy M ^a   Singh, Hanumant ^a   Edmonds, Henrietta N ^b   Kunz, Clayton ^a   Hedman, Ulf ^c   Helmke, Elisabeth ^d   Jakuba, Michael ^e   Liljebladh, Bengt ^f   Linder, Julia ^d   Murphy, Christopher ^a   Nakamura, Ko Ichi ^g   Sato, Taichi ^h   Schlindwein, Vera ^d   Stranne, Christian ^f   Tausenfreund, Maria ^d   Upchurch, Lucia ^b   Winsor, Peter ^a   Jakobsson, Martin ⁱ   Soule, Adam ^a   more..

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Swedish Polar Secretariat   (Sweden)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

ⁱ STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BASALT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SEAWATER; SPREADING CENTER; TERRAIN; VOLCANISM; WATER DEPTH;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; EXPLOSION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; VOLCANO;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIAN BASIN; GAKKEL RIDGE;

EID: 46249120077     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07075     Document Type: Article

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