Permeability of asthenospheric mantle and melt extraction rates at mid-ocean ridges

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7270, 2009, Pages 209-212

  Connolly, James A D ^a   Schmidt, Max W ^a   Solferino, Giulio ^a   Bagdassarov, Nikolai ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIUM 226;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BASALT; EXTRACTION METHOD; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; MICROSCOPY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OLIVINE; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIUM ISOTOPE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CENTRIFUGE; EXTRACTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENT; MELTING POINT; MICROSCOPY; MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; VELOCITY;

EID: 70449679207     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08517     Document Type: Article

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