Flood basalts and ocean island basalts: A deep source or shallow entrainment?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 553-563

  Lohmann, F C ^a   Hort, M ^b   Phipps Morgan, J ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

entrainment; laboratory experiments; mantle plume; numerical study

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL CORE; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; DEEP SOURCES; ENTRAINMENT; FLOOD BASALT; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; HOT SPOT; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL STUDY; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS; SOURCE REGION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; THERMAL ENTRAINMENT; UPWELLING PLUME;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL PLUMES;

BASALT;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENTRAINMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOOD BASALT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY METHOD; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; TEMPERATURE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 67650688054     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.025     Document Type: Article

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