Cenozoic magmatism throughout east Africa resulting from impact of a single plume

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6704, 1998, Pages 788-791

  Ebinger, C J ^a,b   Sleep, N H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VELOCITY; VOLCANO;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032558727     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27417     Document Type: Article

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