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Canales, J.P., R.S. Detrick, S. Bazin, A.J. Harding and J.A. Orcutt, Off-axis crustal thickness across and along the East Pacific Rise within the MELT area, Science, 280, 1218-1221, 1998
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Abstract Wide-angle seismic data along the Mantle Electromagnetic and Tomography (MELT) arrays show that the thickness of 0.5- to 1.5-million-year-old crust of the Nazca Plate is not resolvably different from that of the Pacific Plate, despite an asymmetry in depth and gravity across this portion of the East Pacific Rise. Crustal thickness on similarly aged crust on the Nazca plate near a magmatically robust part of the East Pacific Rise at 17?15'S is slightly thinner (5.1 to 5.7 kilometers) than at the 15?55'S overlapping spreading center (5.8 to 6.3 kilometers). This small north-south off-axis crustal thickness difference may reflect along-axis temporal variations in magma supply, whereas the across-axis asymmetry in depth and gravity must be caused by density variations in the underlying mantle. |
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