Multiple plume events in the genesis of the peri-Caribbean Cretaceous oceanic plateau province

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B4, 2000, Pages 8403-8421

  Lapierre, Henriette ^a   Bosch, Delphine ^b   Dupuis, Vincent ^c,i   Polvé, Mireille ^d   Maury, René C ^e   Hernandez, Jean ^f   Monié, Patrick ^b   Yeghicheyan, Delphine ^d   Jaillard, Etienne ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Tardy, Marc ^h   De Lépinay, Bernard Mercier ^c   Mamberti, Marc ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Desmet, Alain ⁱ   Keller, Francine ^a   Sénebier, François ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^e Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MANTLE PLUME;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 0034629840     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jb900091     Document Type: Article

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