Hikurangi Plateau: A Cretaceous large igneous province in the southwest Pacific Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 687-696

  Mortimer, Nick ^a   Parkinson, Dave ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; BASALTS; BASEMENT ROCK; CRETACEOUS; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LAVA;

PACIFIC, HIKURANGI PLATEAU;

EID: 0029769250     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95jb03037     Document Type: Article

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