Buoyancy and localizing properties of continental mantle lithosphere: Insights from thermomechanical models of the eastern Gulf of Aden

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2800-2817

  Watremez, L ^a,b   Burov, E ^b   D'Acremont, E ^b   Leroy, S ^b   Huet, B ^c   Le Pourhiet, L ^b   Bellahsen, N ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gulf of Aden; lithosphere buoyancy; ocean continent transition; plasticity; rifting; thermomechanical modeling

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; ELASTICITY; MELTING; MODELS; PLASTICITY;

COMPOSITION OF THE MANTLES; GULF OF ADEN; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MOHR-COULOMB PLASTICITIES; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; REFRACTION SEISMICS; RIFTING; THERMOMECHANICAL MODEL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ARABIAN PLATE; BUOYANCY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; OCEANIC CRUST; PARTIAL MELTING; PLASTICITY; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING;

ARABIAN SEA; GULF OF ADEN; INDIAN OCEAN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84885111904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20179     Document Type: Article

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