Mantle plumes and Antarctica-New Zealand rifting: Evidence from mid-Cretaceous mafic dykes

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 659-671

  Storey, Bryan C ^a   Leat, Philip T ^a   Weaver, Stephen D ^b   Pankhurst, Robert J ^a   Bradshaw, John D ^b   Kelley, Simon ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Continental drift; Geochemistry; Gondwana; Magmatism

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRETACEOUS; GONDWANA; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING;

ANTARCTICA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032703428     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.4.0659     Document Type: Article

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