Electrical image of passive mantle upwelling beneath the northern East Pacific Rise

Nature

Volumn 495, Issue 7442, 2013, Pages 499-502

  Key, Kerry ^a   Constable, Steven ^a   Liu, Lijun ^b   Pommier, Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPWELLING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MANTLE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84875592045     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11932     Document Type: Article

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