Evaluation of different models for the origin of the Siberian Traps

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 430, Issue , 2007, Pages 669-691

  Ivanov, Alexei V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Convection; Delamination; Impact; Plume; Siberian Traps; Subduction

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DELAMINATION; HEAT CONVECTION; ISOTOPES; MICA; MIXING; SILICATE MINERALS; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

IMPACT; LITHOSPHERIC DELAMINATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; PLUME; SIBERIAN TRAPS; SUBDUCTION;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

DELAMINATION; ISLAND ARC; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMA; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; MICA; OCEAN; PERMIAN; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; SYNCLINE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSITION ZONE; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TUNGUSKA;

EID: 63749106279     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2430(31)     Document Type: Article

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