Ascending subducted oceanic crust entrained within mantle plumes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1561-1564

  Yasuda, Atsushi ^a   Fujii, Toshitsugu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL PLUMES;

BASALTIC VOLCANISM; HIGH PRESSURE; MAGMA SOURCES; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OCEANIC CRUST; TRANSITION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE;

EARTH SCIENCES; TECTONICS;

SUBDUCTED OCEANIC CRUST;

MANTLE PLUME; OCEANIC CRUST; SUBDUCTION; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0032523678     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01230     Document Type: Article

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