Mantle insulation beneath the West African craton during the Precambrian-Cambrian transition

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 839-842

  Doblas, Miguel ^a   López Ruiz, José ^a   Cebriá, José María ^a   Youbi, Nasrrddine ^b   Degroote, Eugenio ^c  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Explosion of life; Extension; Ice sheets; Mantle insulation; Thermal activity; West African craton

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; TECTONICS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL INSULATION; VOLCANOES;

GEOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; CRATON; HEAT SOURCE; ICE SHEET; MANTLE; PLATE TECTONICS; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; THERMAL ACTIVITY;

AFRICA;

EID: 0346666923     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0839:MIBTWA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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