Giant dikes, rifts, flood basalts, and plate tectonics: A contention of mantle models

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 388, Issue , 2005, Pages 401-420

  McHone, J Gregory ^a   Anderson, Don L ^b   Beutel, Erin K ^c   Fialko, Yuri A ^d  

^a Earth Science Education and Research   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c School of Business   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flood basalt; Giant dikes; LIP; Plume; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FLOODS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); TECTONICS; THERMAL PLUMES;

CENTRAL ATLANTIC MAGMATIC PROVINCES; CRUSTAL UPLIFT; FLOOD BASALT; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAFIC INTRUSION; PLUME; RADIATING PATTERN;

LEVEES;

BASALT; DIKE; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE TECTONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84874994756     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2388-4.401     Document Type: Article

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