Shear-driven upwelling induced by lateral viscosity variations and asthenospheric shear: A mechanism for intraplate volcanism

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 162-175

  Conrad, Clinton P ^a   Wu, Benjun ^b   Smith, Eugene I ^c   Bianco, Todd A ^a   Tibbetts, Ashley ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthenospheric upwelling; Intraplate volcanism; Melting instability; Plate motions; Upper Mantle Flow; Viscosity heterogeneity; Viscous shear

Indexed keywords

BASALTIC VOLCANISM; BASIN AND RANGE; CIRCULATORY FLOW; CONTINENTAL RIFT; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; ERUPTION RATES; FLOW INDUCED; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC PROCESS; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL FLOW MODELS; PLATE MOTIONS; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOMOGRAPHIC; UPPER MANTLE; UPPER MANTLE FLOW; UPWELLING RATES; VERTICAL EDGES; VISCOSITY RATIOS; VISCOSITY VARIATIONS; VISCOUS SHEAR;

ASPECT RATIO; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MELTING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEARING; VISCOSITY;

SHEARING MACHINES;

ASTHENOSPHERE; DECOMPRESSION; FORMATION MECHANISM; HETEROGENEITY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE MOTION; SHEAR FLOW; UPWELLING; VISCOSITY; VOLCANISM; VOLCANOLOGY;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE;

EID: 74449090698     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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