Timing of the ethiopian flood basalt event and implications for plume birth and global change

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6653, 1997, Pages 838-841

  Hofmann, C ^a,b   Courtillot, V ^a   Feraud G ^b   Rochette, P ^c   Yirgu, G ^d   Ketefo, E ^d   Pik, R ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c CEREGE   (France)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MANTLE PLUME; MASS EXTINCTION; PALAEOCLIMATE;

ARTICLE; ETHIOPIA; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEMEN;

EID: 0030829191     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39853     Document Type: Article

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