Birth of an ocean in the Red Sea: Initial pangs

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ligi, Marco ^a   Bonatti, Enrico ^a,b   Bortoluzzi, Giovanni ^a   Cipriani, Anna ^b,c   Cocchi, Luca ^d   Caratori Tontini, Fabio ^e   Carminati, Eugenio ^f   Ottolini, Luisa ^g   Schettino, Antonio ^h  

^a ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^e GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g CNR   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

gravity and magnetics; magma genesis and partial melting; mantle processes; Red Sea; transition from continental to oceanic rift

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; MELTING;

AXIAL PROPAGATION; BASALTIC GLASS; BUOYANCY-DRIVEN CONVECTION; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEPTH DEPENDENTS; ERUPTION RATES; INITIAL PHASIS; LINEAR SEGMENTS; LOW VISCOSITY; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGNETIC INTENSITIES; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MANTLE MELTING; MANTLE PROCESSES; MANTLE SOURCE; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RED SEA; RIFT MODEL; SPREADING RATE; TRANSITION FROM CONTINENTAL TO OCEANIC RIFT;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETION; BASALT; CONTINENTAL DRIFT; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EMPLACEMENT; GRAVITY; MAGMA; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MANTLE PROCESS; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; TRACE ELEMENT; UPWELLING;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; THETIS DEEP;

EID: 84865517032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GC004155     Document Type: Article

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