Assessment of the cooling capacity of plate tectonics and flood volcanism in the evolution of Earth, Mars and Venus

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 287-315

  van Thienen, P ^a,b   Vlaar, N J ^a   van den Berg, A P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Flood volcanism; Planetary cooling; Plate tectonics; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BUOYANCY; COOLING; PLANETS; TECTONICS;

COOLING CAPACITY; COOLING EARTH; FLOOD VOLCANISMS;

VOLCANOES;

COOLING; FLOOD BASALT; MARS; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLATE TECTONICS; VENUS; VOLCANISM;

EID: 18144368536     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.11.010     Document Type: Article

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