Mantle plume heads and the initiation of plate tectonic reorganizations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 156, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 195-207

  Ratcliff, James Todd ^a,d   Bercovici, David ^b   Schubert, Gerald ^a,c   Kroenke, Loren W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood basalts; Mantle plumes; Movement; Numerical analysis, CFD; Ontong Java Plateau; Pacific Place; Plate tectonics; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0031844544     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(98)00016-8     Document Type: Article

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