Can downward flow of dense cumulate slurry through mushy upper gabbros produce lower gabbros at a fast-spreading center?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 121-127

  Buck, W Roger ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICATE MINERALS; VISCOSITY;

CRITICAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; DENSITY DRIVEN FLOWS; DOWNWARD FLOW; MAGMA BODIES; OCEANIC CRUST; SPREADING RIDGE; THERMAL CONVECTIONS; THROUGH THE LENS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CUMULATE; GABBRO; MAGMA; OCEANIC CRUST; OLIVINE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SLURRY; SPREADING CENTER; UPPER CRUST; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84871014788     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.121     Document Type: Article

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