Yellowstone hotspot volcanism in California? A paleomagnetic test of the Lovejoy flood basalt hypothesis

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 697-700

  Coe, Robert S ^a   Stock, Greg M ^b   Lyons, John J ^a   Beitler, Brenda ^c   Bowen, Gabriel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbia River Basalt; Correlation; Flood basalts; Paleomagnetism; Sierra Nevada

Indexed keywords

COLUMBIA RIVER BASALT; FLOOD BASALTS; PALEOMAGNETISM; SIERRA NEVADA; COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS; DIRECTIONAL CORRELATIONS; FLOOD BASALT; GEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION; PALEOMAGNETIC DIRECTIONS; YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT;

BASALT; DEMAGNETIZATION; MAGNETIZATION; ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOODS; GEOMAGNETISM;

GEOMAGNETISM; BASALT;

FLOOD BASALT; HOT SPOT; LAVA FLOW; MIOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE CALDERA; CALIFORNIA; COLUMBIA RIVER; OREGON;

EID: 24644502148     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21733.1     Document Type: Article

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