Migration of mid-ocean-ridge volcanic segments
Nature
By: Hans Schouten, H.J.B. Dick, and Kim D. Klitgord
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Abstract
The propagation of small-offset volcanic spreading-centre segments along mid-ocean ridge crests may reflect absolute motion of the plate boundary relative to the underlying mesospheric frame. Such a relationship could be caused by a purely vertical flow of the mantle under spreading centres and would have value in constraining past plate motions from non-transform trends generated during along-ridge propagation and in linking the major-element variability of oceanic crust and upper mantle to the bulk composition and temperatures of mantle ascending under mid-ocean ridges.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Migration of mid-ocean-ridge volcanic segments |
| Series title | Nature |
| DOI | 10.1038/326835a0 |
| Volume | 326 |
| Issue | 6116 |
| Publication Date | April 01, 1987 |
| Year Published | 1987 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer Nature |
| Description | 5 p. |
| First page | 835 |
| Last page | 839 |