Long-lived early Cretaceous seamount volcanism in the Mariana Trench, Western Pacific Ocean

Marine Geology

Volumn 189, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 371-379

  Hirano, Naoto ^a,c   Ogawa, Yujiro ^a   Saito, Kazuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alkali basalt; Ar Ar age; Cretaceous; Post shield volcanism; Rhyolite; Seamount

Indexed keywords

RHYOLITE PILLOW LAVA;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CRETACEOUS; PLATE MOTION; RADIOLARIA; SEAMOUNT; VOLCANISM;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037201910     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00445-0     Document Type: Article

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