Crustal trace of a hot convective sheet

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 207-210

  Al Kindi, Suleiman ^a   White, Nicky ^a   Sinha, Martin ^b   England, Richard ^c   Tiley, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convection; Denudation; Plumes; Underplating; Wide angle seismology

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE SHEETS;

ERRORS; GRAVITATION; MELTING; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMOLOGY;

GEOLOGY;

CONVECTION; DENUDATION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; UNDERPLATING;

EID: 0037346367     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0207:CTOAHC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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