The Bail Hill Volcanic Group: Alkaline within-plate volcanism during Ordovician sedimentation in the Southern Uplands, Scotland

Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 233-247

  Phillips, E R ^a   Smith, R A ^a   Floyd, J D ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkaline within plate volcanism; Ordovician; Southern Uplands

Indexed keywords

INTRAPLATE PROCESS; ORDOVICIAN; VOLCANISM;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032243265     PISSN: 02635933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0263593300002406     Document Type: Article

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