Carbonatite alkaline magmatism associated with continental flood basalts at stratigraphic boundaries: Cause for mass extinctions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1917-1920

  Ray, Jyotiranjan S ^a   Pande, Kanchan ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FLOODS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; BASALT; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALKALINE VOLCANISM; BASALTIC ERUPTIONS; CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; IMPACT SCENARIOS; MASS EXTINCTION; NEW DIMENSIONS;

BASALT; SEISMOLOGY;

CARBONATITE ALKALINE MAGMATISM; DECCAN VOLCANISM; PHANEROZOIC EXTINCTIONS;

ALKALI BASALT; CARBONATITE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DECCAN TRAPS; FLOOD BASALT; MAGMATISM; MASS EXTINCTION;

INDIA;

EID: 0032735099     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900390     Document Type: Article

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