Models of crustal anatexis in volcanic rifts: Applications to southern Finland and the Oslo Graben, southeast Norway

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-255

  Pedersen, Tom ^a   Heeremans, Michel ^b   Van Der Beek, Peter ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anatexis; Magmatism; Oslo Graben; Rapakivi granites; Rifting; Underplating

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000722145     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246x.1998.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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