Lower oceanic crust formed at an ultra-slow-spreading ridge: Ocean Drilling Program Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 75-86

  Robinson, Paul T ^a   Dick, Henry J B ^b   Natland, James H ^c   Alt, J C ^d   Bach, W ^d   Bideau, D ^d   Gee, J S ^d   Haggis, S ^d   Hertogen, J ^d   Hirth, G ^d   Holm, P M ^d   Ildefonse, B ^d   Iturrino, G J ^d   John, B E ^d   Kelley, D S ^d   Kikawa, E ^d   Kingdon, A ^d   LeRoux, P J ^d   Maeda, J ^d   Meyer, P S ^d   Miller, D J ^d   Naslund, H R ^d   Niu, Y L ^d   Snow, J ^d   Stephen, R A ^d   Trimby, P W ^d   Worm, H U ^d   Yoshinobu, A ^d   more..

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BOREHOLES; CALCITE; CREEP; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FELDSPAR; INFILL DRILLING; IRON ALLOYS; IRON OXIDES; OLIVINE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TITANIUM ALLOYS; ZEOLITES;

CRYSTALLINE STATE; DIFFUSE BOUNDARIES; GRANULITE FACIES; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; INTENSE DEFORMATION; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE; ULTRA-SLOW SPREADING;

TITANIUM OXIDES;

COMPOSITE; COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIOPSIDE; GABBRO; GEOSYNCLINE; KINEMATICS; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; OCEANIC CRUST; OLIVINE; OPHIOLITE; PREHNITE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SHEAR ZONE; SYNCLINE;

ATLANTIS II FRACTURE ZONE; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 84871029253     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.75     Document Type: Article

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