Effects of plate boundary geometry and kinematics on mantle melting beneath the back-arc spreading centers along the Lau Basin

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 298, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 334-346

  Harmon, Nicholas ^a   Blackman, Donna K ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Back arc spreading; Lau Basin; Mantle melting; Tonga subduction zone

Indexed keywords

MELTING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; WATER CONTENT;

BACK-ARC; BACK-ARC SPREADING; BACK-ARC SPREADING CENTERS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; LAU BASIN; MANTLE MELTING; MANTLE WEDGE; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TONGA SUBDUCTION ZONE;

HYDRATION;

CRUSTAL THICKNESS; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MAGMA; MANTLE SOURCE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANISM;

LAU BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; TONGA; VALU FA RIDGE;

EID: 77957315697     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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