Small-scale instabilities below the cooling oceanic lithosphere

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 655-666

  Marquart, Gabriele ^a   Schmeling, Harro ^a   Braun, Alexander ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lithospheric cooling; Mid ocean ridges; Rayleigh Taylor instabilities; SE Pacific; Upper mantle; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

INSTABILITY; LITHOSPHERE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032745612     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00885.x     Document Type: Article

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