Convective interactions between oceanic lithosphere and asthenosphere: Influence of a transform fault

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 301-309

  Dumoulin, C ^a,b   Choblet, G ^a,b   Doin, M P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

oceanic lithosphere; small scale convection; transform fault

Indexed keywords

2D EXPERIMENTS; 3D NUMERICAL MODELS; 3D-VELOCITY; BASAL HEATING; BUOYANT FLOWS; CURRENT ESTIMATES; FRACTURE ZONES; INTERNAL HEATING; LATERAL FLOWS; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE VISCOSITIES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERES; OCEANIC VOLCANOES; ONSET-TIME; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SEGMENT LENGTHS; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; SPECIFIC GEOMETRY; SURFACE SPREADING; SURFACE VELOCITIES; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRANSFORM FAULTING;

EARTH (PLANET); EXPERIMENTS; FLUID MECHANICS; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEATING; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISCOSITY;

ACTIVATION ENERGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BASAL TEMPERATURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FRACTURE ZONE; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SPREADING CENTER; THERMAL CONVECTION; TRANSFORM FAULT; VISCOSITY;

EID: 52649182662     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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