Effects of a warmer mantle on the characteristics of archean passive margins

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 440, Issue , 2008, Pages 149-156

  Hynes, Andrew ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean; Passive margins; Subsidence; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); MELTING; SEA LEVEL;

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; PASSIVE MARGINS; THERMAL RELAXATION; VOLCANIC SUCCESSIONS; VOLCANISM;

SUBSIDENCE;

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE; MELTING; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFTING; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC PLATE; VOLCANISM; WARMING;

EID: 63049135848     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2440(07)     Document Type: Article

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