Asthenospheric flow and origin of volcanism in the Baikal Rift area

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 415-424

  Lebedev, Sergei ^a   Meier, Thomas ^b   van der Hilst, Rob D ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropy; continental rift; hotspot; mantle flow; plum pudding; plume

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERIC FLOW; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; CONTINENTAL RIFT; HOT-SPOT LIKE VOLCANISM; MANTLE FLOW; SHEAR-WAVE-SPLITTING CONSTRAINTS;

ANISOTROPY; BASALT; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

VOLCANOES;

ASTHENOSPHERE; HEAT FLOW; HOT SPOT; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANISM;

BAIKAL RIFT ZONE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 33749051200     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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