Melt generation at volcanic continental margins: No need for a mantle plume?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 3995-3998

  van Wijk, J W ^a   Huismans, R S ^a   ter Voorde, M ^a   Cloetingh, S A P L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MELTING; THERMAL PLUMES; ALUMINUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

MELT GENERATION;

VOLCANOES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; MANTLE PLUME; PETROGENESIS; RIFTING; SILICATE MELT; VOLCANISM;

DEFORMATION RESULT; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; NUMEROUS MODELS; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THINNING FACTORS; VOLCANIC CONTINENTAL MARGIN;

EID: 0035888528     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012848     Document Type: Article

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