40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Ethiopian and Yemeni basements: Reheating related to the Afar plume?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 314, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 351-372

  Mock, Claire ^a,c   Arnaud, Nicolas O ^a   Cantagrel, Jean Marie ^a   Yirgu, Gezahegn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crustal thermal anomaly; Crystalline basement; Ethiopia; Mantle plume; Yemen

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASEMENT ROCK; MANTLE PLUME;

ETHIOPIA; YEMEN;

EID: 0033620061     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00224-3     Document Type: Article

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