Seamounts, knolls and petit-spot monogenetic volcanoes on the subducting Pacific Plate

Basin Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 543-553

  Hirano, Naoto ^a   Koppers, Anthony A P ^b   Takahashi, Ayu ^a   Fujiwara, Toshiya ^c   Nakanishi, Masao ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAMOUNT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; TRENCH;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 57049123352     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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