The importance of rift history for volcanic margin formation

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7300, 2010, Pages 913-917

  Armitage, John J ^a   Collier, Jenny S ^a   Minshull, Tim A ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MARGIN; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLOOD BASALT; HOT SPOT; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; MELT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; RIFT ZONE; RIFTING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; LITHOSPHERE; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VOLCANO;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 77953713066     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09063     Document Type: Article

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