Mantle upwelling after Gondwana subduction death explains anomalous topography and subsidence histories of eastern New Zealand and west Antarctica

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-158

  Sutherland, Rupert ^a   Spasojevic, Sonja ^b   Gurnis, Michael ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; CAMPBELL; CENOZOIC; CONSTRUCT MODELS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DOWN-WELLING; EQUIVALENT DEPTH; GEOCHEMICAL ANOMALY; LATE CRETACEOUS; LITHOSPHERIC AGE; LOW-DENSITY MATERIALS; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE FLOW; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; NEW ZEALAND; OCEAN CRUST; PALEOGENE; PLATE MOTIONS; RIFT BASIN; SEA FLOOR; SUPPORT MECHANISM; THERMALLY DRIVEN;

OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL WELLS; SEISMIC WAVES;

SUBSIDENCE;

CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DOWNWELLING; GONDWANA; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOGENE; PLATE MOTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TOPOGRAPHY; UPWELLING;

ANTARCTICA; CAMPBELL PLATEAU; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 77950146239     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30613.1     Document Type: Article

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