A thermo-chemical regime in the upper mantle in the early Earth inferred from a numerical model of magma-migration in a convecting upper mantle

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 187-215

  Kameyama, Masanori ^a   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^a   Ogawa, Masaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; MAGMATISM; MANTLE (UPPER);

EID: 0029770062     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9201(95)03102-2     Document Type: Article

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