Sulfur and chlorine in late Cretaceous Deccan magmas and eruptive gas release

Science

Volumn 319, Issue 5870, 2008, Pages 1654-1657

  Self, Stephen ^a   Blake, Stephen ^a   Sharma, Kirti ^a   Widdowson, Mike ^a   Sephton, Sarah ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; SULFUR;

CHLORINE; CRETACEOUS; DECCAN TRAPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOOD BASALT; GAS TRANSPORT; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA; MASS EXTINCTION; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLCANO;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 41149093602     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1152830     Document Type: Article

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