Intraplate magmatism related to short-wavelength convective instabilities in the upper mantle: Evidence from the Tertiary-Quaternary volcanic province of western and central Europe

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 37-58

  Wilson, Marjorie ^a   Patterson, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; MELTING; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ALKALI BASALT; CENTRAL EUROPE; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; MANTLE SOURCE; PARTIAL MELTING; QUATERNARY VOLCANISMS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

VOLCANOES;

ASTHENOSPHERE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE UPWELLING; MELILITE; PARTIAL MELTING; QUATERNARY; TERTIARY; TRACE ELEMENT; VOLCANISM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84871092100     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.37     Document Type: Article

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