Reconstructing the ancestral Yellowstone plume from accreted seamounts and its relationship to flat-slab subduction

Tectonophysics

Volumn 365, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 185-194

  Murphy, J Brendan ^a   Hynes, Andrew J ^b   Johnston, Stephen T ^c   Keppie, J Duncan ^d  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Coast Ranges; Crescent terrane; Flat slab subduction; Yellowstone plume

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; PLUME; SEAMOUNT; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

COAST RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038031866     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00022-2     Document Type: Article

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