Elevation as indicator of mantle-plume activity

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 183-225

  Şengör, A M Celâl ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

ACTIVE REGIONS; EARLY OLIGOCENE; EARTH'S SURFACE; EASTERN EUROPE; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL; LATE DEVONIAN; LITHOSPHERIC FLEXURE; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS;

DOMES;

BASALT; DEVONIAN; DIKE SWARM; DOME; EOCENE; GRAVITY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; MESOZOIC; PLUME; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

AFRICA;

EID: 84871072931     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.183     Document Type: Article

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