Repeat ridge jumps associated with plume-ridge interaction, melt transport, and ridge migration

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mittelstaedt, Eric ^a,b   Ito, Garrett ^a   Van Hunen, Jeroen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; HEATING; HOT SPOT; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMA; MELT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLUME; POROSITY; SEAFLOOR; TECTONIC PLATE; VISCOPLASTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 79251624968     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007504     Document Type: Article

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