Mantle plumes link magnetic superchrons to phanerozoic mass depletion events

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 495-504

  Courtillot, Vincent ^a   Olson, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

continental flood basalts; faunal mass depletions; geodynamo; magnetic superchrons; mantle plumes; polarity reversals; traps

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALTS; FAUNAL MASS DEPLETION; MAGNETIC SUPERCHRONS; MANTLE PLUMES;

GEOMAGNETISM; HEAT TRANSFER; THERMAL PLUMES; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FLOOD BASALT; GEODYNAMO; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MANTLE CONVECTION; MANTLE PLUME; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PHANEROZOIC; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 34447512555     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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