Mantle flow and melting beneath oceanic ridge-ridge-ridge triple junctions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 231-240

  Georgen, Jennifer E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Azores Triple Junction; mid ocean ridge; numerical model; Rodrigues Triple Junction; Southwest Indian Ridge; Terceira Rift

Indexed keywords

MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE PLUMES; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; RIDGE SEGMENTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL PLUMES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; MANTLE PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTIAL MELTING; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TRIPLE JUNCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES TRIPLE JUNCTION; INDIAN OCEAN; RODRIGUEZ TRIPLE JUNCTION; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE; TERCEIRA RIFT;

EID: 44649104427     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.040     Document Type: Article

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