Flood basalts of Vestfjella: Jurassic magmatism across an Archaean-Proterozoic lithospheric boundary in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1271-1305

  Luttinen, Arto V ^a   Furnes, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Depleted and enriched mantle sources; Karoo magmatism; Magmatic differentiation; Vestfjella (Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica): Sr and Nd isotopes

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL CONTAMINATION; FLOOD BASALT; JURASSIC; LITHOSPHERE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CHEMISTRY;

ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUDE LAND; VESTFJELLA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0033867248     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/41.8.1271     Document Type: Article

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