Plate tectonics, the wilson cycle, and mantle plumes: Geodynamics from the top

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-29

  Burke, Kevin ^a,b,c  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth history; mantle dynamics; stable LLSVPs

Indexed keywords

BASIC ELEMENTS; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTH HISTORY; MANTLE DYNAMICS; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; STABLE LLSVPS; WILSON CYCLE;

GEODYNAMICS; SHEAR FLOW; THERMAL PLUMES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TECTONICS;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEEP SEA; EARTH STRUCTURE; GEODYNAMICS; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; PLUME; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 79955485962     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152521     Document Type: Article

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