Seismic evidence for a hydrothermal layer above the solid roof of the axial magma chamber at the southern East Pacific Rise

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 219-222

  Singh, S C ^a   Collier, J S ^a   Harding, A J ^b   Kent, G M ^b   Orcutt, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; SEISMOLOGY;

CIRCULATING FLUIDS; EAST PACIFIC RISE; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; TRANSITION ZONES;

ROOFS;

GABBRO; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; MAGMA CHAMBER; OCEANIC CRUST;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879879608     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0219:SEFAHL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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