'Boomerang' migratory intraplate Cenozoic volcanism, eastern Australian rift margins and the Indian-Pacific mantle boundary

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 372, Issue , 2003, Pages 203-221

  Sutherland, F L ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basalt; Mantle plumes; MORB; Seamounts; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

BASALT;

CENOZOIC VOLCANISM; DOMAIN BOUNDARY; DYNAMIC FLOWS; MANTLE PLUME; MORB; PLUME DEFLECTION; SEAMOUNTS; VOLCANISM;

VOLCANOES;

CENOZOIC; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MANTLE PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; RIFT ZONE; SEAMOUNT; VOLCANISM;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA;

EID: 78049238793     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2372-8.203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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