New evidence for geologically instantaneous emplacement of earliest Jurassic Central Atlantic magmatic province basalts on the North American margin

Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 859-862

  Hames, W E ^a   Renne, P R ^b,c   Ruppel, C ^d  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ar ar; Atlantic; Basalt; Geochronology; Mesozoic

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEVEES;

ATLANTIC; BASALTIC VOLCANISM; CENTRAL ATLANTIC; CENTRAL ATLANTIC MAGMATIC PROVINCES; CONVECTION MODEL; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; MESOZOIC; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC;

BASALT;

BASALT; CONVECTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; MESOZOIC; TRIASSIC;

AFRICAN MARGIN [ATLANTIC OCEAN]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0001305055     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<859:NEFGIE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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