A historical approach to continental flood basalt volcanism: Insights into pre-volcanic rifting, sedimentation, and early alkaline magmatism

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 19-26

  Sheth, H C ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Flood basalts; Mantle plumes; Metasomatism; Rift zones; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; METASOMATISM; RIFT ZONE; VOLCANISM;

EID: 0033617555     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00045-X     Document Type: Article

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