Sedimentary evidence for a rapid, kilometer-scale crustal doming prior to the eruption of the Emeishan flood basalts

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 391-405

  He, Bin ^a,b   Xu, Yi Gang ^a   Chung, Sun Ling ^c   Xiao, Long ^a   Wang, Yamei ^b  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Domal uplift; Emeishan flood basalts; Mantle plume; Sedimentary record

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

(SOUTHWEST); CHINA;

EID: 0042322366     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00323-6     Document Type: Article

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