Evidence for a rheologically strong chemical mantle root beneath the Ontong-Java Plateau

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 347-361

  Klosko, E R ^a   Russo, R M ^a   Okal, E A ^a   Richardson, W P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthenosphere; Large igneous provinces; Lithosphere; Mantle flow; Mantle plumes; Ontong Java Plateau; S waves; Tectonosphere; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0035012885     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00235-7     Document Type: Article

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