New insight in the Hawaiian plume swell dynamics from scaling laws

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  van Hunen, Jeroen ^a   Zhong, Shijie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; BUOYANCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

PLUME SWELL DYNAMICS; ACTIVATION ENERGY E; MANTLE RHEOLOGY; MANTLE VISCOSITY; MODEL PARAMETERS; PLUME BUOYANCY FLUXES; PLUME TEMPERATURE; SHAPE VARIATIONS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

SWELLING; SCALING LAWS;

BUOYANCY; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; TECTONIC SETTING; VISCOSITY; VOLCANIC FEATURE;

HAWAII; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242337445     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017646     Document Type: Article

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