Late Cretaceous rift-related upwelling and melting of the Trindade starting mantle plume head beneath western Brazil

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 303-314

  Gibson, S A ^a   Thompson, R N ^b   Weska, R K ^c   Dickin, A P ^d   Leonardos, O H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MANTLE PLUME; RIFT; UPWELLING;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0031444572     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050252     Document Type: Article

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