Lower-crustal cracking front at fast-spreading ridges: Evidence from the East Pacific Rise and the Oman ophiolite

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 261-272

  Manning, Craig E ^a   MacLeod, Christopher J ^b   Weston, Patricia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; REACTION RATES;

BRITTLE-PLASTIC TRANSITION; CRACK NETWORKS; CRUSTAL GABBROS; EAST PACIFIC RISE; FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; FRACTURING SCALE; HYDROLYTIC WEAKENING; SPREADING RIDGE;

STRAIN RATE;

AMPHIBOLE; COOLING; CRACKING (FRACTURE); CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HEAT FLOW; LOWER CRUST; MOHO; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PERMEABILITY; PLAGIOCLASE; RHEOLOGY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; STRAIN RATE;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; OMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84870985276     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.261     Document Type: Article

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