Scoring hotspots: The plume and plate paradigms

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 388, Issue , 2005, Pages 31-54

  Anderson, Don L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hotspots; Mantle convection; Plate tectonics; Plumes; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; THERMAL PLUMES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

FERTILITY VARIATION; HOTSPOTS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE GEOCHEMISTRIES; PLUMES; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; THERMAL INSTABILITIES; VOLCANISM;

TECTONICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; FERTILITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOT SPOT; MAGMATISM; MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; PLATE TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSITION ZONE; VOLCANISM;

AFAR; ICELAND; KENTUCKY; LOUISVILLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874999546     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2388-4.31     Document Type: Article

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