Quantifying the thermo-mechanical impact of plume arrival on continental break-up

Tectonophysics

Volumn 604, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-59

  Brune, Sascha ^a   Popov, Anton A ^b   Sobolev, Stephan V ^a,c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Continental break up; Lithosphere erosion; Numerical modeling; Plume lithosphere interaction; Rifting; Tectonic forces

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; PLUME-LITHOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; RIFTING; STRENGTH REDUCTION; TECTONIC FORCES; THERMAL INFLUENCE; THERMO-MECHANICAL RESPONSE;

LITHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; VISCOELASTICITY;

EROSION;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DIKE; ELASTOPLASTICITY; EMPLACEMENT; EROSION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME; RHEOLOGY; RIFTING; THERMOMECHANICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOPLASTICITY;

EID: 84884415262     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.02.009     Document Type: Article

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