The use of mafic dike swarms in identifying and locating mantle plumes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 247-265

  Ernst, Richard E ^a   Buchan, Kenneth L ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LEVEES; LOCATION; STRESSES; TECTONICS; THERMAL PLUMES;

CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; FLOOD BASALT; LIMITED INFORMATION; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC PLATEAUX; RADIATING PATTERN; REGIONAL STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC PROCESS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; DIKE SWARM; EROSION RATE; FLOOD BASALT; MAFIC ROCK; MANTLE PLUME; OCEANIC CRUST; STRESS FIELD; UPLIFT;

EID: 84871035617     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.247     Document Type: Article

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