Remnants of Gondwanan continental lithosphere in oceanic upper mantle: Evidence from the South Atlantic Ridge

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 243-246

  Kamenetsky, Vadim S ^a   Maas, Roland ^b   Sushchevskaya, Nadezhda M ^c   Norman, Marc D ^a   Cartwright, Ian ^d   Peyve, Alexander A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gondwana; Isotopes; Mantle heterogeneities; Mid ocean ridge basalts; South Atlantic; Subcontinental lithosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035263451     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0243:ROGCLI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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