Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core-mantle boundary

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 49-60

  Burke, Kevin ^a,b   Steinberger, Bernhard ^c   Torsvik, Trond H ^c   Smethurst, Mark A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

core mantle boundary; hotspot; Large Igneous Provinces; Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces; mantle plume; Plume Generation Zones

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; MANTLE PLUME; SHEAR VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; SHEAR WAVES; THERMAL GRADIENTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

THERMAL PLUMES;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEOID; HOT SPOT; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MANTLE PLUME; OUTER CORE; S-WAVE; SLAB; WAVE VELOCITY;

COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 36849040479     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.042     Document Type: Article

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