January 2006 seafloor-spreading event at 9°50′N, East Pacific Rise: Ridge dike intrusion and transform fault interactions from regional hydroacoustic data

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Dziak, Robert P ^a,b   Bohnenstiehl, Delwayne R ^c   Matsumoto, Haruyoshi ^a,b   Fowler, Matthew J ^a,b   Haxel, Joseph H ^a,b   Tolstoy, Maya ^d   Waldhauser, Felix ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Fast spreading; Hydroacoustics; Hydrophone; Magma intrusion; Mid ocean ridge

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049104731     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002388     Document Type: Article

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