40Ar-39Ar age of the St. Mary's Islands volcanics, Southern India: Record of India-Madagascar break-up on the Indian subcontinent

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 193, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 39-46

  Pande, Kanchan ^a   Sheth, Hetu C ^a,b   Bhutani, Rajneesh ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39; Geochronology; India; Rifting; Tectonics; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRETACEOUS; FLOOD BASALT; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

INDIA; MADAGASCAR;

EID: 0035655221     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00495-2     Document Type: Article

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