Pangea's complex breakup: A new rapidly changing stress field model

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 471-485

  Beutel, E K ^a   Nomade, S ^b,c   Fronabarger, A K ^a   Renne, P R ^b,c  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carolina; Continental breakup; Dating; Dike; Geochemistry; Mesozoic; Pangea; Plume; Stress

Indexed keywords

CAROLINAS; CENTRAL ATLANTIC MAGMATIC PROVINCE (CAMP); MANTLE PLUME; STRESS FIELDS;

IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEVEES; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

EARTH (PLANET);

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MESOZOIC; PANGAEA; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 22144482307     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.03.021     Document Type: Article

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