Styles of continental rifting: crust-mantle detachment and mantle plumes

Observations made in different continental rift systems (European, Red Sea-Gulf of Aden, and East African Rift Systems) were investigated in terms of the influence of different parameters on the style of rifting. Apart from the lithospheric thermal regime at the time of rift initiation, the process...

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Hauptverfasser: Zeyen, Hermann (VerfasserIn) , Volker, Frank (VerfasserIn) , Wehrle, Veronika (VerfasserIn) , Fuchs, Karl (VerfasserIn) , Sobolev, Stephan V. (VerfasserIn) , Altherr, Rainer (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 1997
In: Tectonophysics
Year: 1997, Jahrgang: 278, Heft: 1, Pages: 329-352
ISSN:1879-3266
DOI:10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00111-X
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Verfasserangaben:Hermann Zeyen, Frank Volker, Veronika Wehrle, Karl Fuchs, Stephan V. Sobolev, Rainer Altherr

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