Network of off-axis melt bodies at the East Pacific Rise

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 279-283

  Canales, J P ^a   Carton, H ^b   Carbotte, S M ^b   Mutter, J C ^b   Nedimovic M R ^b,c   Xu, M ^d   Aghaei, O ^c   Marjanovic M ^b   Newman, K ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; LAVA FLOW; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CONVECTION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SILL;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84859355739     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1377     Document Type: Article

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