Young off-axis volcanism along the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 286-292

  Standish, Jared J ^a,b   Sims, Kenneth W W ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; FAULT PLANE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IMAGERY; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; MODEL TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 77950528133     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo824     Document Type: Article

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