Interaction of rifting and hot horizontal plume sheets at volcanic margins

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B6, 2000, Pages 13375-13387

  Keen, C E ^a   Boutilier, R R ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE PLUME; RIFTING; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0034631228     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900027     Document Type: Article

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