On the fate of thermally buoyant mantle plumes at density interfaces

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 180-193

  Kumagai, Ichiro ^a,b   Davaille, Anne ^b   Kurita, Kei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

La R union hotspot; Laboratory experiment; Mantle plume; Phase transition; Superswells; Thermochemical convection

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BUOYANCY; MANTLE PLUME; THERMOCHEMICAL CONVECTION;

BUOYANCY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GEOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMAL PLUMES; VISCOSITY;

GEOLOGY;

HOT SPOT; LABORATORY METHOD; MANTLE PLUME; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOCHEMISTRY; UPWELLING;

EID: 33846327651     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.029     Document Type: Article

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