Extremely thin crust in the Indian Ocean possibly resulting from Plume-Ridge Interaction

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-42

  Singh, Satish C ^a   Carton, Hélène ^a   Chauhan, Ajay S ^a   Androvandi, Sophie ^b   Davaille, Anne ^b   Dyment, Jérôme ^a   Cannat, Mathilde ^a   Hananto, Nugroho D ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Hotspots; Indian Ocean; Mantle processes

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FRACTURE ZONE; HOT PLUMES; HOTSPOTS; INDIAN OCEAN; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LITHOSPHERIC; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE PROCESSES; MELT PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PLUME-RIDGE; SEISMIC REFLECTION AND REFRACTION DATA; SPREADING RATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT VISCOSITY; ULTRA-SLOW SPREADING;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HOT SPOT; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SIMULATION; SPREADING CENTER;

INDIAN OCEAN; WHARTON BASIN;

EID: 78650120804     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04823.x     Document Type: Article

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