Constraints on the cretaceous thermal event in the transantarctic mountains from alteration processes in Ferrar flood basalts

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 23, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 45-60

  Molzahn, M ^a   Worner G ^b   Henjes Kunst, F ^c   Rocholl, A ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar; Antarctica; Apophyllite; Cretaceous thermal event; Ferrar flood basalts; K Ar

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CRETACEOUS; THERMAL ALTERATION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA;

VICTORIA;

EID: 17344378531     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(99)00050-8     Document Type: Article

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