Electrical image of passive mantle upwelling beneath the northern East Pacific Rise

Kerry Key (), Steven Constable, Lijun Liu and Anne Pommier
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Kerry Key: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Steven Constable: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
Lijun Liu: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois
Anne Pommier: School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University

Nature, 2013, vol. 495, issue 7442, 499-502

Abstract: Sea-floor magnetotelluric soundings along a portion of the East Pacific Rise reveal a symmetric, high-conductivity triangular region at depths of 20–90 kilometres that is consistent with partial melting of passively upwelling mantle.

Date: 2013
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