Contrasting rifted margin styles south of Greenland: Implications for mantle plume dynamics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 200, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 271-286

  Nielsen, Thomas K ^a   Larsen, Hans Christian ^a   Hopper, John R ^a  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accreting plate boundary; Dehydration; Lava channels; Mantle plumes; North Atlantic; Rift zones

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ACTIVE MARGIN; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC SURVEY; TERTIARY; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

GREENLAND; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0036302964     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00616-7     Document Type: Article

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