Eruptive hummocks: Building blocks of the upper ocean crust

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 91-94

  Yeo, Isobel ^a   Searle, Roger C ^a   Achenbach, Kay L ^a   Bas, Tim P Le ^b   Murton, Bramley J ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; DOMINANT MECHANISM; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OCEANIC CRUST; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SIDE SCAN SONAR; UPPER OCEAN;

REMOTE SENSING; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; VOLCANOES;

POROSITY;

HUMMOCKY CROSS-STRATIFICATION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; POROSITY; REMOTE SENSING; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPREADING CENTER; UPPER CRUST; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

EID: 84855468359     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31892.1     Document Type: Article

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