Cyclic continental mafic tuff and flood basalt volcanism in the Late Archaean Nullagine and Mount Jope supersequences in the eastern Pilbara, Western Australia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 107, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 139-177

  Blake, Tim S ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaean; Dykes; Food basalts; Mafic; Tuff; Unconformities

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER;

ARCHEAN; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; FLOOD BASALT; MAFIC ROCK; TUFF; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GEOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSICS; ROCK; SEDIMENT; VOLCANO;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0035794398     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00135-2     Document Type: Article

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