Seamount morphology in the Bowie and Cobb hot spot trails, Gulf of Alaska

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Chaytor, Jason D ^a,b   Keller, Randall A ^c   Duncan, Robert A ^a   Dziak, Robert P ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Sea level; Slope stability; Submarine volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149087219     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GC001712     Document Type: Article

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