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Plateaus from seafloor spreading

Authors :
Joanne M. Whittaker
Source :
Nature Geoscience. 12:587-588
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.

Abstract

Ocean-floor plateaus are not voluminous lava flows from central volcanoes as thought, but anomalously thick oceanic crust, suggest magnetic anomaly patterns from the Shatsky Rise, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Subjects

Subjects :
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Volcano
Oceanic crust
Lava
Large igneous province
Geochemistry
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Volcanism
Magnetic anomaly
Pacific ocean
Seafloor spreading
Geology

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ISSN :
17520908 and 17520894
Volume :
12
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature Geoscience
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........0380e681223bc3ffdb29e39ad8ff8169
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0416-5
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