Corrugated slip surfaces formed at ridge–transform intersections on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

1997/01/01 by J. R. Cann, Donna K. Blackman, D. K. Blackman +11 · 477 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Basalt #Crust #Detachment fault #Extensional definition #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Geophysics #Lithosphere #Mantle (geology) #Mid-Atlantic Ridge #Paleontology #Peridotite #Petrology #Plate tectonics #Ridge #Ridge push #Seismology #Tectonics #Transform fault #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1038/385329a0

published in Nature 385(6614), 329-332 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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