Professor Jeroen Van Hunen's Outputs (3)

Small-scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for topography, magmatism, and evolution of Proterozoic lithosphere (2010)
Journal Article
van Wijk, J., Baldridge, W., van Hunen, J., Goes, S., Aster, R., Coblentz, D., …Ni, J. (2010). Small-scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for topography, magmatism, and evolution of Proterozoic lithosphere. Geology, 38(7), 611-614. https://doi.org/10.1130/g31031.1

The Colorado Plateau of the southwestern United States is characterized by a bowl-shaped high elevation, late Neogene–Quaternary magmatism at its edge, large gradients in seismic wave velocity across its margins, and relatively low lithospheric seism... Read More about Small-scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for topography, magmatism, and evolution of Proterozoic lithosphere.

Lithospheric cooling and thickening as a basin forming mechanism (2010)
Journal Article
Holt, P., Allen, M., van Hunen, J., & Bjørnseth, H. (2010). Lithospheric cooling and thickening as a basin forming mechanism. Tectonophysics, 495(3-4), 184-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2010.09.014

Widely accepted basin forming mechanisms are limited to flexure of the lithosphere, and lithospheric stretching followed by cooling and thermal subsidence. Neither of these mechanisms works for a group of large basins, sometimes known as “intracontin... Read More about Lithospheric cooling and thickening as a basin forming mechanism.

Small-scale sublithospheric convection reconciles geochemistry and geochronology of 'Superplume' volcanism in the western and south Pacific (2010)
Journal Article
Ballmer, M., Ito, G., van Hunen, J., & Tackley, P. (2010). Small-scale sublithospheric convection reconciles geochemistry and geochronology of 'Superplume' volcanism in the western and south Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290(1-2), 224-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.025

Cretaceous volcanism in the West Pacific Seamount Province (WPSP), and Tertiary volcanism along the Cook-Australs in the South Pacific are associated with the same broad thermochemical anomaly in the asthenosphere perhaps related to the Pacific ‘Supe... Read More about Small-scale sublithospheric convection reconciles geochemistry and geochronology of 'Superplume' volcanism in the western and south Pacific.