Mantle temperature and lithospheric thinning beneath the Midcontinent rift system: Evidence from magmatism and subsidence

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 464-475

  White, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMOMETER; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; P/T CONDITIONS; SUBSIDENCE;

NORTH AMERICA, MIDCONTINENTAL RIFT;

EID: 0030696061     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e17-038     Document Type: Article

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