Contractional effects of mantle plumes on Earth, Mars, and Venus

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 103-140

  Mège, Daniel ^a   Ernst, Richard E ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; THERMAL PLUMES; VOLCANOES;

ARCHEAN GREENSTONE BELTS; COLUMBIA RIVER FLOOD BASALTS; DUCTILE TO BRITTLE TRANSITIONS; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; LATTER MECHANISM; NORTH ATLANTIC; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; YILGARN CRATONS;

BASALT;

ARCHEAN; CONTRACTION; FOLDING; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GREENSTONE BELT; MANTLE PLUME; MARS; TECTONICS; UPLIFT; VENUS;

ANDALUCIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); AUSTRALIA; COLUMBIA RIVER; DHARWAR CRATON; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; INDIA; SPAIN; SYRIAN ARC; THARSIS;

EID: 84871072804     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.103     Document Type: Article

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