Thermal entrainment and melting in mantle plumes

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 1995, Pages 251-267

  Farnetani, Dinzia G ^a   Richards, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE/MANTLE BOUNDARY; FLOOD BASALT; HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; THERMAL ENTRAINMENT;

EID: 0029528966     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(95)00158-9     Document Type: Article

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