Title: Melt to mush variations in crustal magma properties along the ridge crest at the southern East Pacific Rise.
Authors: Singh, S.C.; Kent, G.M.; Collier, J. S.; Harding, A. J.; Orcutt, J. A.
Abstract: Reports that the melt sill along the East Pacific Rise undergoes abrupt changes in its internal properties, ranging from pure melt to mush. What seismic reflection images have shown; Suggestion that the pure melt pockets may represent a fresh supply of magma from the mantle, capable of erupting and forming the upper crust; The importance of the determination of along-axis variations in melt properties within the crustal axial magma chamber beneath fast spreading axes.
Subjects: EAST Pacific Rise; CRUST of the earth; SEISMIC prospecting
Publication: Nature, 1998, Vol 394, Issue 6696, p874
ISSN: 0028-0836
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1038/29740

Melt to mush variations in crustal magma properties along the ridge crest at the southern East Pacific Rise.

Singh, S.C.; Kent, G.M.; Collier, J. S.; Harding, A. J.; Orcutt, J. A.