Mantle viscosity beneath the Galapagos 95.5 deg W propagating rift

Details Mantle viscosity beneath the Galapagos 95.5 deg W propagating rift Mantle viscosity beneath the Galapagos 95.5 deg W propagating rift

Apr 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..329s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, April 1986, p. 329-332.

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Earth Mantle, Geological Faults, Geophysics, Ocean Bottom, Lithosphere, Pacific Ocean, Propagation Velocity, Tectonics, Viscosity

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Detailed geophysical surveys in the vicinity of the Galapagos 95.5 deg W propagating rift tip establish the opening history of the rift and its velocity of propagation. These data together with a theory for mantle upwelling into slowly widening lithospheric cracks constrain the viscosity of the asthenosphere beneath the propagating rift to be less than about 10 to the 17th to 10 to the 18th Pa s.

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