Role of the Kerguelen Plume in generating the eastern Indian Ocean seafloor

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 13831-13849

  Weis, Dominique ^a   Frey, Frederick A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALTS; CAINOZOIC; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; KERGUELEN PLUME; MANTLE DYNAMICS; MANTLE PLUMES; MESOZOIC; MORB;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0030513507     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb00410     Document Type: Article

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