Spatial variations in effective elastic thickness in the Western Pacific Ocean and their implications for Mesozoic volcanism

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 89-100

  Kalnins, L M ^a   Watts, A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bathymetry; elastic thickness; flexure; free air gravity; submarine volcanism

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC DATA; EARLY CRETACEOUS; ELASTIC THICKNESS; FIRST ORDER; FLEXURE; FREE-AIR GRAVITY; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; HIGH-T; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; MOVING WINDOW; OCEANIC CRUST; PACIFIC PLATES; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEAMOUNT CHAINS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STUDY AREAS; SUBMARINE VOLCANISM; SYNTHETIC TESTS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL ANOMALIES; VOLCANIC EVENT; VOLCANIC MATERIALS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BATHYMETRY; ISOTHERMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SUBMARINES; VOLCANOES; WINDOWS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BATHYMETRY; ELASTICITY; FLEXURE; GRAVITY ANOMALY; OROGENY; PACIFIC PLATE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAMOUNT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 69549116966     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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