The French Guyana doleritic dykes: Geochemical evidence of three populations and new data for the Jurassic Central Atlantic Magmatic Province

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 595-614

  Nomade, S ^a,b   Pouclet, A ^a   Chen, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIABASE; DIKE; JURASSIC; MAGMATISM; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AFRICA; FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 0036897542     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-3707(02)00034-0     Document Type: Article

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