A brief Oligocene period of flood volcanism in Yemen: Implications for the duration and rate of continental flood volcanism at the Afro-Arabian triple junction

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 138, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 39-55

  Baker, Joel ^a   Snee, Lawrence ^b   Menzies, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39; Ethiopia; Flood basalts; K Ar; Oligocene; Triple junctions; Yemen

Indexed keywords

AFRO-ARABIAN TRIPLE JUNCTION; ARGON- 40/ARGON-39 DATING; BASALT; FLOOD VOLCANISM; OLIGOCENE;

YEMEN;

EID: 0029749980     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(95)00229-6     Document Type: Article

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