Fine-scale segmentation of the crustal magma reservoir beneath the East Pacific Rise

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 866-870

  Carbotte, Suzanne M ^a   Marjanović, Milena ^a   Carton, Helene ^a   Mutter, John C ^a   Canales, Juan Pablo ^b   Nedimović, Mladen R ^a,c   Han, Shuoshuo ^a   Perfit, Michael R ^d  

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

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LAVA; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMATISM; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84885005676     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1933     Document Type: Article

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