Flood basalts and hotspot tracks; plume heads and tails

Mark A. Richards; Robert A. Duncan; Vincent E. Courtillot

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Flood basalts and hotspot tracks; plume heads and tails

Mark A. Richards, Robert A. Duncan and Vincent E. Courtillot

Bulletin - New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Vol.131, p.222

General assembly of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior

04/1989

Abstract

Africa

Asia

basaltic composition

Brazil

Brito-Arctic Basalt

Caribbean Plate

Cenozoic

Columbia River Basalt Group

Deccan Traps

East Pacific

enrichment

eruptions

Europe

hot spots

Iceland

Igneous and metamorphic petrology

India

Indian Ocean Islands

Indian Peninsula

Karoo Supergroup

lava flows

lithosphere

Louisville Ridge

magnetostratigraphy

mantle

Mascarene Islands

mass extinctions

Mesozoic

meteors

Miocene

Namibia

Neogene

Pacific Ocean

Parana-Etendeka Basalt

petrology

plate tectonics

Rajmahal Basalt

rates

Reunion

rifting

Siberian Traps

Solid-earth geophysics

South America

South Pacific

Southeast Pacific

Southern Africa

tectonophysics

Tertiary

tholeiitic composition

viscosity

volcanism

Western Europe

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Title: Flood basalts and hotspot tracks; plume heads and tails
Creators - without role: Mark A. Richards - Univ. Oreg., Dep. Geol. Sci. Eugene, OR USA United States
Robert A. Duncan - Oreg. State Univ. USA United States
Vincent E. Courtillot - Inst. Phys. Globe Paris FRA France
Publication Details: Bulletin - New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, Vol.131, p.222
Conference: General assembly of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
Publisher: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources
Identifiers: 9952696208331
Academic Unit: King Saud University
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article