Rise and deflection of mantle plume tails

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Kerr, Ross C ^a   Lister, John R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deflection; Mantle plume; Plume tails; Rise velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249113364     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002124     Document Type: Article

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