Multi-channel seismic imaging of a crustal magma chamber along the East Pacific Rise
Abstract
A reflection observed on multi-channel seismic profiles along and across the East Pacific Rise between 8°50' N and 13°30' N is interpreted to arise from the top of a crustal magma chamber located 1.2-2.4 km below the sea floor. The magma chamber is quite narrow (<4 - 6 km wide), but can be traced as a nearly continuous feature for tens of kilometres along the rise axis.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- March 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1038/326035a0
- Bibcode:
- 1987Natur.326...35D