Plume head-lithosphere interactions near intra-continental plate boundaries

Tectonophysics

Volumn 434, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 15-38

  Burov, Evgene ^a   Guillou Frottier, L ^b   d'Acremont, E ^a   Le Pourhiet, L ^c   Cloetingh, S ^d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cratons; Metallogenic crises; Plume lithosphere interaction; Rheology

Indexed keywords

CRATON; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLUME; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 33947670527     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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