Uniformitarian plume tectonics: The post-Archean Earth and Mars

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 141-164

  Mège, Daniel ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLCANOES;

CRUSTAL PROCESS; MAGMATISMS; MANTLE PLUME; PLUME EFFECTS; PRECAMBRIAN; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; YELLOWSTONES;

TECTONICS;

MAGMATISM; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MARS; PLUME; PRECAMBRIAN; TECTONIC SETTING; TERTIARY;

ANDALUCIA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; MACKENZIE; SPAIN; THARSIS;

EID: 84871100411     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.141     Document Type: Article

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