Flow of Canary mantle plume material through a subcontinental lithospheric corridor beneath Africa to the Mediterranean: Comment

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Berger, Julien ^a   Liégeois, Jean Paul ^b   Ennih, Nasser ^c   Bonin, Bernard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL INTERIOR; LITERATURE REVIEW; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE PLUME; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT;

AFRICA;

EID: 73849128565     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30516C.1     Document Type: Note

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