Superplumes, plates, and mantle magmatism in two-dimensional numerical models

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Ogawa, Masaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BASALT; HOT SPOT; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 34548399346     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004533     Document Type: Article

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