The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the late-Cretaceous picrites and basalts of Curaçao, Netherlands antilles: A remnant of an oceanic plateau

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-43

  Kerr, Adrew C ^a   Tarney, John ^a   Marriner, Giselle F ^c   Klaver, Gerard Th ^b   Saunders, Andrew D ^a   Thirlwall, Matthew F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CRETACEOUS; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE PLUME; OCEANIC PLATEAU; PETROGENESIS; PICRITE;

CURACAO;

EID: 0030404073     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050171     Document Type: Article

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