A moderate melting model for the Vøring margin (Norway) based on structural observations and a thermo-kinematical modelling: Implication for the meaning of the lower crustal bodies

Tectonophysics

Volumn 412, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 255-278

  Gernigon, Laurent ^a,f   Lucazeau, Francis ^b   Brigaud, Frederic ^c   Ringenbach, Jean Claude ^d   Planke, Sverre ^e   Le Gall, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

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

^c CSTJF   (France)

^d TOTAL   (France)

^e Forskningsparken   (Norway)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Breakup; Mantle plume; Modelling; Norwegian margin; Rifting; Underplating; Volcanic margins

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; TECTONOPHYSICS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; VORING MARGIN;

EID: 30344448263     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.10.038     Document Type: Article

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