Structure of the Earth

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541Lithosphere / Mantle / Craton / Asthenosphere / Basin and Range Province / Isostasy / Orogeny / Crust / Tectonics / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

Lithospheric scale gravitational flow: the impact of body forces on orogenic processes from Archaean to Phanerozoic PATRICE F. REY1 & GREGORY HOUSEMAN2 1 School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 and Dept

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Language: English - Date: 2006-09-12 22:20:11
542Oceanic gyres / Earth / Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf / Aquatic ecology / Weddell Gyre / Weddell Sea / Mixed layer / Primary production / Ocean gyre / Physical geography / Oceanography / Physical oceanography

region on the long hydrographic section is shown in figure 2. The structure of the temperature field is similar to that obtained in 1987 in this section with the exception of the top 100 meters or so where there is some

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 20:46:50
543Geodynamics / Volcanology / Geological history of Earth / Mantle / Subduction / Large igneous province / Lithosphere / Slab / Io / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

A brief history of the plume hypothesis and its competitors: Concept and controversy Don L. Anderson California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, California 92125, USA James H. Natland

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Language: English - Date: 2005-08-01 00:41:19
544Geophysics / Plate tectonics / Geodynamics / Geological history of Earth / Mantle plume / Hotspot / William Glen / Mantle / Plume / Geology / Historical geology / Structure of the Earth

The origins and early trajectory of the mantle plume quasiparadigm William Glen U.S. Geological Survey, MS 501, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, and Stanford University Press, Stanford, California,

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Language: English - Date: 2005-08-01 00:43:26
545Hotspot / Mantle / Lithosphere / Asthenosphere / Mid-ocean ridge / Mesoplates / Mantle plume / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

On the shallow origin of hotspots and the westward drift of the lithosphere Carlo Doglioni* Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università la Sapienza, Rome 00185, Italy David H. Green Research School of Earth Sciences

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Language: English - Date: 2005-08-01 00:42:44
546Earth / Radioglaciology / Glacier / Antarctica / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Ice / Antarctic ice sheet / Ross Ice Shelf / Cryosphere / Physical geography / Glaciology / Water ice

track) completed over Dufek Massif as part of a cooperative program with the U.S. Geological Survey to investigate the regional extent and detailed magnetic and sub-ice structure of this large, layered igneous intrusion

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 03:41:29
547Volcanology / Ultramafic rocks / Structure of the Earth / Volcanic rocks / Peridotite / Harzburgite / Olivine / Tholeiitic magma series / Basalt / Geology / Petrology / Plate tectonics

Primary magmas at mid-ocean ridges, “hotspots,” and other intraplate settings: Constraints on mantle potential temperature David H. Green Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra 02

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Language: English - Date: 2005-08-01 00:43:34
548Core–mantle boundary / Seismic tomography / Subduction / Seismology / Earthquake / Mantle plume / Geology / Structure of the Earth / Mantle

The robust aspects of global seismic tomography Adam M. Dziewonski Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA ABSTRACT This paper reviews results from the past twe

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Language: English - Date: 2005-08-01 00:42:51
549Geodynamics / Mantle plume / Slab / Mantle / Subduction / Crust / Lithosphere / Geophysics / Iceland plume / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

Mass flux across the lower–upper mantle boundary: Vigorous, absent, or limited? Alexei V. Ivanov* Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lermontov Street, 128, 664033, Irkutsk,

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Language: English - Date: 2005-08-01 00:43:52
550Mantle plume / Mantle / Slab / Subduction / Continental crust / Lithosphere / Basalt / Crust / Mid-ocean ridge / Geology / Plate tectonics / Structure of the Earth

The streaky-mantle alternative to mantle plumes and its bearing on bulk-Earth geochemical evolution Alan D. Smith* Department of Geological Sciences, University of Durham, Durham, UK ABSTRACT Standard geochemical models

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