Matching conjugate volcanic rifted margins: 40Ar/39Ar chrono-stratigraphy of pre- and syn-rift bimodal flood volcanism in Ethiopia and Yemen

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 198, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 289-306

  Ukstins, Ingrid A ^a,b   Renne, Paul R ^c,d   Wolfenden, Ellen ^a   Baker, Joel ^b   Ayalew, Dereje ^e   Menzies, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^c Berkeley Geochronology Centre   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39; Ethiopia; Flood basalts; Rifting; Volcanism; Yemen

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CENOZOIC; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; FLOOD BASALT; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

ETHIOPIA; YEMEN;

EID: 0036281715     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00525-3     Document Type: Article

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