Extensive 200-million-year-old continental flood basalts of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5414, 1999, Pages 616-618

  Marzoli, Andrea ^a,b,f   Renne, Paul R ^a,c   Piccirillo, Enzo M ^b   Ernesto, Marcia ^d   Bellieni, Giuliano ^e   De Min, Angelo ^b  

^a BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; FLOOD BASALT; JURASSIC; MASS EXTINCTION; PANGAEA; TRIASSIC;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; EUROPE; GEOLOGY; HISTORY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VOLCANO;

EID: 0033597448     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5414.616     Document Type: Article

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44. This research was funded by Italian (Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Brazilian (Programa da Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnólogico/Financiadora de Estudos e Projectos and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico), and U.S. (NSF grant EAR-9496326) agencies and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, We thank M. Iacumin, P. Antonini, M. Hirschmann, and W. Sharp for discussions; Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais for logistical support in sampling the Roraima dikes; C. Montes-Lauar (Anari and Tapirapuã) and A. Novello (Ceará) for providing samples; and T. Becker for argon laboratory assistance. Special thanks are due to geologist Sandoval Pinheiro for his help during fieldwork.