Mantle Plumes and Mountains: The progress of southwestern North America across a plume may demonstrate a previously overlooked form of mountain building
Murphy JB, Oppliger GL, Brimhall GH, Hynes A. 1999. Mantle Plumes and Mountains: The progress of southwestern North America across a plume may demonstrate a previously overlooked form of mountain building. American Scientist. 87(2):146-153
The progress of southwestern North America across a plume may demonstrate a previously overlooked form of mountain building. [The author builds his hypothesis on the demonstration of plume activity represented by the Hawaiian-Emperor chain.]
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Murphy, J; Oppliger, Gary; Brimhall, George; Hynes, Andrew
- Units
- HAVO
- Keywords
- Mechanism, Thermal Plume