The timescales of plume generation caused by continental aggregation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-43

  Honda, Satoru ^a   Yoshida, Masaki ^a   Ootorii, Sakie ^a   Iwase, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continental breakup; Mantle convection; Plume; Supercontinent; Thermal insulation

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; MODELING; SUPERCONTINENT; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 0034723862     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00319-2     Document Type: Article

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