Basement rocks from the east pacific rise near 9°N compared with other ocean-floor volcanic provinces
| Type | Article | ||||||||
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| Date | 1980 | ||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||
| Author(s) | Hekinian Roger, Morel J. M. | ||||||||
| Source | Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (U. S. Government), 1980 , Vol. 54 , P. 819-832 | ||||||||
| Mot-Clé(s) | Histoire Ifremer | ||||||||
| Abstract | The East Pacific Rise (EPR) has an "S" shape extending from the Gulf of California to the southwestern Pacific Ocean where it joins the Mid-Indian Oceanic Ridge in the Tasman Sea region. The length of the EPR is about 17,000 km ; its width is about 2000 km-comparable to that of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). [NOT CONTROLLED OCR] | ||||||||
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