Lower crustal flow kept Archean continental flood basalts at sea level

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1159-1162

  Flament, Nicolas ^a,b   Rey, Patrice F ^b   Coltice, Nicolas ^a   Dromart, Gilles ^a   Olivier, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL FLOW; FLOOD BASALT; GEOTHERMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PILBARA; RADIOGENIC HEAT PRODUCTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

GALLIUM; LITHOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE;

BASALT;

ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FLOOD BASALT; HEAT PRODUCTION; MOHO; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

AUSTRALIA; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80955136486     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32231.1     Document Type: Article

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