Thermal state of northwest Kyushu mantle suggested by the petrochemistry of the Tara-dake basalts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Higo, Tomohiko ^a,b   Mashima, Hidehisa ^a,c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PETROCHEMICALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL PLUMES;

PETROCHEMIST; THERMAL STATE;

GEOPHYSICS;

BASALT; MANTLE CONVECTION; PETROLOGY; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KYUSHU;

EID: 18144435105     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018734     Document Type: Article

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