Plume capture by divergent plate motions: Implications for the distribution of hotspots, geochemistry of mid-ocean ridge basalts, and estimates of the heat flux at the core-mantle boundary

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 361-378

  Jellinek, A Mark ^a   Gonnermann, Helge M ^a   Richards, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Core heat flux; Mantle convection; Mantle plume; Mid ocean ridge basalt geochemistry; Plume ridge interaction

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; HEAT FLUX; HOT SPOT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; PLATE MOTION;

EID: 0037428121     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01070-1     Document Type: Article

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