Post-emplacement melt flow induced by thermal stresses: Implications for differentiation in sills

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 152-166

  Aarnes, Ingrid ^a   Podladchikov, Yuri Y ^a   Neumann, Else Ragnhild ^a  

^a Physics of Geological Processes   (Norway)

Author keywords

D shape; differentiation; melt flow; sill; thermal stresses

Indexed keywords

D-SHAPE; DIFFERENTIATION; MELT FLOW; SILL; THERMAL STRESSES;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); METALLIC GLASS; PARAFFIN WAXES; POWDERS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; THERMAL STRESS; THERMOELASTICITY;

MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES;

EMPLACEMENT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOMETRY; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SILL; SOLIDIFICATION;

AFRICA; KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 55549095092     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.016     Document Type: Article

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