Ridge-crossing seamount chains: A nonthermal approach

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 430, Issue , 2007, Pages 375-386

  Beutel, Erin K ^a   Anderson, Don L ^b  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Finite element; Hotspot; Plume; Ridge; Transform; Tristan de Cunha

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ATLANTIC; HOT SPOT; PLUME; RIDGE; TRISTAN DE CUNHA;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOT SPOT; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; MANTLE PLUME; SEAMOUNT; TRANSFORM;

BRAZIL; CUNHA; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

EID: 53249135116     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2430(19)     Document Type: Article

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