Diapir-driven crustal convection: Decompression melting, renewal of the magma source and the origin of nested plutons

Tectonophysics

Volumn 271, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 217-229

  Weinberg, Roberto F ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convection; Decompression; Diapirs; Melting

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; DECOMPRESSION MELTING; DIAPIR; NESTED PLUTON; SOURCE RENEWAL;

EID: 0030775451     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00269-7     Document Type: Article

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