Ultrafast mantle plumes and implications for flood basalt volcanism in the Northern Atlantic region

Tectonophysics

Volumn 311, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 31-43

  Larsen, Tine B ^a   Yuen, David A ^b   Storey, Michael ^c  

^a Natl Surv and Cadastre DK 2400 NV   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Flood basalts; Iceland; Mantle plume; Non Newtonian rheology; North Atlantic; Numerical modeling

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; RHEOLOGY; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0033400491     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00163-8     Document Type: Article

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