A late Cretaceous contamination episode of the European-Mediterranean mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 268, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 15-27

  Piromallo, Claudia ^a   Gasperini, Daniela ^b   Macera, Patrizia ^b   Faccenna, Claudio ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cenozoic HIMU OIB volcanism; Euro Mediterranean mantle; geochemistry; mantle tomography; plate kinematics

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC PLATES; PLATE KINEMATICS; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SIESMIC TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES;

GEOCHEMISTRY; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GEOPHYSICS;

AFRICAN PLATE; CRETACEOUS; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MANTLE SOURCE; PARTIAL MELTING; RIFTING; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; UPWELLING;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 40649112562     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.12.019     Document Type: Article

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