Are the Norwegian mountains compensated by a mantle thermal anomaly at depth?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 475, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 160-168

  Pascal, Christophe ^a   Olesen, Odleiv ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asthenospheric diapir; Bouguer anomalies; Heat flow; Isostasy

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERIC DIAPIR; BOUGUER ANOMALIES; CENOZOIC; GEOPHYSICAL MODELLING; HEAT FLOW; HEAT FLOWS; ICELAND PLUME; ISOSTASY; MOUNTAIN RANGES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RUGGED TOPOGRAPHY; SOUTHERN NORWAY; SURFACE HEAT FLOW; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL ANOMALIES; THERMAL MODELLING; THERMAL PROCESS;

FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; GEODESY; HEAT TRANSFER; LANDFORMS; SURFACE TESTING;

HEAT FLUX;

ASTHENOSPHERE; BOUGUER ANOMALY; DIAPIRISM; HEAT FLOW; HEAT SOURCE; ISOSTASY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; MOUNTAIN REGION; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; UPLIFT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDES MOUNTAINS; SCANDINAVIA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 69149089260     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.01.015     Document Type: Article

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