Heads and tails: 30 million years of the Afar plume

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 259, Issue , 2006, Pages 95-119

  Furman, T ^a   Bryce, J ^b   Rooney, T ^a   Hanan, B ^c   Yirgu, G ^d   Ayalew, Dere ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE PLUME; MELTING; OLIGOCENE; TRACE ELEMENT;

AFAR; AFRICA; ASIA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; YEMEN;

EID: 33745775061     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.259.01.09     Document Type: Article

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