Petrological models of magma evolution and deep crustal structure beneath hotspots and flood basalt provinces

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 143, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 81-94

  Farnetani, Cinzia G ^a,c   Richards, Mark A ^a   Ghiorso, Mark S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Crust; High velocity zones; Melts; Models; Picrite; Plumes; Tholeiitic basalt

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HIGH VELOCITY ZONE; HIGH VELOCITY ZONES; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; MAGMA EVOLUTION; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE PLUMES; OCEANIC PLATEAU; PICRITE; THOLEIITE;

EID: 0030423309     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00138-0     Document Type: Article

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