Upwellings from a deep mantle reservoir filtered at the 660 km phase transition in thermo-chemical convection models and implications for intra-plate volcanism

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 172, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 210-224

  van Summeren, J R G ^a   van den Berg, A P ^a   van der Hilst, R D ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excess temperature; Intra plate volcanism; Mantle upwellings; Thermo chemical convection; Transition zone

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EXCESS TEMPERATURE; INTRA-PLATE VOLCANISM; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; THERMO-CHEMICAL CONVECTION; TRANSITION ZONE;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PHASE TRANSITION; THERMAL CONVECTION; TRANSITION ZONE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 57749119371     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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