The Scotia Sea gateway: No outlet for Pacific mantle

Tectonophysics

Volumn 604, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-50

  Nerlich, Rainer ^a,b   Clark, Stuart R ^a   Bunge, Hans Peter ^b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asthenosphere; Dynamic topography; Lithospheric cooling models; Plate reconstructions

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; COOLING MODEL; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; SCOTIA SEA; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TIME-SCALES;

GEOPHYSICS; PHYSICS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; COOLING; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MODELING; PLATE TECTONICS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RECONSTRUCTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SCOTIA SEA;

EID: 84884411942     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.023     Document Type: Article

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