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Imaging the Deep Seismic Structure Beneath a Mid-Ocean Ridge: The MELT Experiment
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The Mantle Electromagnetic and Tomography (MELT) Experiment was designed to distinguish between competing models of magma generation beneath mid-ocean ridges. Seismological observations demonstrate that basaltic melt is present beneath the East Pacific Rise spreading center in a broad region several hundred kilometers across and extending to depths greater than 100 kilometers, not just in a narrow region of high melt concentration beneath the spreading center, as predicted by some models. The structure of the ridge system is strongly asymmetric: mantle densities and seismic velocities are lower and seismic anisotropy is stronger to the west of the rise axis.
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- Authors
- Team, T. M. S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1998-05-22
- Volume
- 280
- Issue
- 5367
- Pages
- 1215-1218
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W4366065132
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- 16.32
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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