Flood basalts and large igneous provinces from deep mantle plumes: Fact, fiction, and fallacy

Tectonophysics

Volumn 311, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 1-29

  Sheth, H C ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Deccan; Flood basalt; Hotspot; Interplate; LIP; Mantle plume; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; HOT SPOT; MANTLE PLUME; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0033385623     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00150-X     Document Type: Article

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