- Title
Hundreds of small volcanoes on the median valley floor of the mid-Atlantic Ridge...
- Authors
Smith, D.K.; Cann, J.R.
- Abstract
Presents the identification of 481 seamounts from about 6,000 km2 of Sea Beam swaths of the median valley floor of the mid-Atlantic Ridge between 24 and 30 degrees N. Suggests that seamounts volcanism in this area plays an important part in the formation of new oceanic lithosphere.
- Subjects
VOLCANOES
- Publication
Nature, 1990, Vol 348, Issue 6297, p152
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/348152a0