The effect of the large-scale mantle flow field on the Iceland hotspot track

Tectonophysics

Volumn 447, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 5-18

  Mihalffy, Peter ^a   Steinberger, Bernhard ^b   Schmeling, Harro ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hotspot track; Mantle flow field; Plume ridge interaction; Tilted plume; Upper mantle plume

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT FLOW; HOT SPOT; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER MANTLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 47049083708     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.12.012     Document Type: Article

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