The quantum event of oceanic crustal accretion: impacts of diking at mid-ocean ridges

J R Delaney1, D S Kelley, M D Lilley

  • 1School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 7, 2001
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