Oceanic upwelling and mantle-plume activity: Paleomagnetic tests of ideas on the source of the Fe in early Precambrian iron formations

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 323-339

  Abbott, Dallas ^a   Isley, Ann ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMAL PLUMES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; COASTAL UPWELLING; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MANTLE PLUME SOURCES; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; RANDOM WALK MODELING;

IRON;

ALTITUDE; IRON ORE; LAVA; MANTLE UPWELLING; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOMAGNETISM; PRECAMBRIAN; SHALLOW WATER; TIME SERIES; UPWELLING;

ALGOMA; CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 1842544755     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.323     Document Type: Article

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