Mechanisms of Continental Crust Growth

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2007, Pages 171-195

  Stein, M ^a   Ben Avraham, Z ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Andesite model; Calc alkaline magmas; Continental crust; Crustal foundering; Crustal growth; Crustal terranes; Delamination; Granites; Island arcs; Lithospheric mantle; Mantle overturn; Mantle plumes; Moho discontinuity; Oceanic plateaus; Radiogenic isotopes; Seismic velocities; Terrane's accretion; Trace element geochemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952561772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00144-9     Document Type: Chapter

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