Segmentation of mid-ocean ridges

Details Segmentation of mid-ocean ridges Segmentation of mid-ocean ridges

Sep 1985

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Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 317, Sept. 19, 1985, p. 225-229. Research supported by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution an

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Geophysics

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Earth Mantle, Geophysics, Ocean Bottom, Plates (Tectonics), Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Ridges, Spreading, Taylor Instability, Volcanoes

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Studies of mid-ocean ridges in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans show that the volcanism that forms the oceanic crust along the spreading-plate boundaries is concentrated at regular intervals related to spreading rate. This observation and a new calculation for a Rayleigh-Taylor type of gravitational instabiity of a partially molten mantle region growing under spreading centres yield reasonable estimates of upper mantle viscosities.

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