Mount Etna-Iblean volcanism caused by rollback-induced upper mantle upwelling around the Ionian slab edge: An alternative to the plume model

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 691-694

  Schellart, W P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC MAGMATISM; CLOSE PROXIMITY; DOWN-WELLING; LATE MIOCENE; LITHOSPHERIC; MANTLE FLOW; MOUNT ETNA; PLUME MODEL; RETURN FLOW; SLAB EDGES; SLAB WINDOWS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SUBDUCTION MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANICS;

MOUNTINGS; TECTONICS; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CALABRIAN; DECOMPRESSION; MAGMATISM; MIOCENE; SLAB; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANISM;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 77955955045     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31037.1     Document Type: Article

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