Continental rift architecture and patterns of magma migration: A dynamic analysis based on centrifuge models

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Corti, Giacomo ^a   Bonini, Marco ^b   Sokoutis, Dimitrios ^c   Innocenti, Fabrizio ^a   Manetti, Piero ^b   Cloetingh, Sierd ^c   Mulugeta, Genene ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analogue modeling; Continental rifting; Magma migration

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; EMPLACEMENT; MAGMATISM; RIFT ZONE; TECTONICS;

EID: 3042584239     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003TC001561     Document Type: Article

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