Ediacaran U-Pb zircon dates for the Lac Matapédia and Mt. St.-Anselme basalts of the Quebec Applachians: Support for a long-lived mantle plume during the rifting phase of lapetus opening

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 565-581

  Hodych, Joseph P ^a   Cox, Richard A ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMAGNETISM; LASER ABLATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

LASER ABLATION MICROPROBE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

EDIACARAN; FLOOD BASALT; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; IAPETUS OCEAN; MAGMATISM; MANTLE PLUME; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLAR WANDERING; RIFTING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 34447092897     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E06-112     Document Type: Article

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