The limited extent of plume-lithosphere interactions during continental flood-basalt genesis: Geochemical evidence from Cretaceous magmatism in southern Brazil

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 147-169

  Gibson, S A ^a   Thompson, R N ^b   Leonardos, O H ^c   Dickin, A P ^d   Mitchell, J G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FLOOD BASALT; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0033378358     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050588     Document Type: Article

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