Melt initiation and mantle exhumation at the Iberian rifted margin: Comparison of pure-shear and upwelling-divergent flow models of continental breakup

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 394-405

  Fletcher, Rosie ^a   Kusznir, Nick ^b   Cheadle, Mike ^c  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental breakup; Continental margins; Exhumed mantle; Lithosphere thinning; Melting; Rifting

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL THINNING; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; RIFTING; VOLCANISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 65849103931     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2008.12.008     Document Type: Article

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