Magma productivity and early seafloor spreading rate correlation on the northern Vøring Margin, Norway - Constraints on mantle melting

Tectonophysics

Volumn 468, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 206-223

  Breivik, Asbjørn Johan ^a   Faleide, Jan Inge ^a   Mjelde, Rolf ^b   Flueh, Ernst R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Large igneous provinces; Magnetic anomalies; Mid Norway; Ocean bottom seismometers; Passive margins; Plate spreading

Indexed keywords

LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MID-NORWAY; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETERS; PASSIVE MARGINS; PLATE SPREADING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; BUOYANCY; MAGNETIC STORAGE; MATERIALS; MELTING; MINERALS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MELTING; P-WAVE; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE MOTION; RAY TRACING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMOGRAPH; UPWELLING; WAVE VELOCITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; LOFOTEN MARGIN; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 62249093749     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.020     Document Type: Article

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