Significance of widespread low effusion rate eruptions over the past two million years for delivery of magma to the overlapping spreading centers at 9°N East Pacific Rise

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 175-184

  White, Scott M ^a   Mason, Jessica L ^a   Macdonald, Ken C ^b   Perfit, Michael R ^c   Wanless, V Dorsey ^c   Klein, Emily M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Pacific Rise; eruption; magma chamber; pillow basalt; ridge axis discontinuity

Indexed keywords

EAST PACIFIC RISE; ERUPTION; MAGMA CHAMBER; PILLOW BASALT; RIDGE AXIS DISCONTINUITY;

BASALT; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LEVEES; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM THEORY;

VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DIKE; MAGMA CHAMBER; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PILLOW LAVA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SPREADING CENTER; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 62549089253     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.030     Document Type: Article

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