Styles of continental rifting: Crust-mantle detachment and mantle plumes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 278, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 329-352

  Zeyen, Hermann ^a,d   Volker, Frank ^b   Wehrle, Veronika ^a   Fuchs, Karl ^a   Sobolev, Stephan V ^a,e   Altherr, Rainer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

European Cenozoic Rift System; Great Rift Valley; Lithosphere; Lower crust; Plate tectonics; Stress; Yield strength

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFT;

EID: 0031413065     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00111-X     Document Type: Article

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