The evolution of scientific thinking in the mantle plume concept: Criticism and non-plume synthesis

Journal of the Geological Society of China

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-40

  Smith, Alan D ^a   Lewis, Charles ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Intraplate volcanism; Marble cake mantle; Non plume synthesis; Stress fields; Westward plate lag

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MANTLE PLUME;

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