Flow stratigraphy of selected sections of the Rajmahal basalts, eastern India

Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 83-93

  Ghose, N C ^a   Singh, S P ^b   Singh, R N ^b   Mukherjee, D ^b  

^a PATNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; LAVA FLOW; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MESOZOIC; PALAEOCLIMATE;

INDIA, INDIAN SHIELD;

EID: 0030430755     PISSN: 07439547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0743-9547(96)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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