Wrangellia flood basalts in Alaska: A record of plume-lithosphere interaction in a Late Triassic accreted oceanic plateau

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Greene, Andrew R ^a   Scoates, James S ^a   Weis, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alaska; High titanium basalt; Low titanium basalt; Nikolai formation; Oceanic plateau; Wrangellia

Indexed keywords

EID: 64949202258     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002092     Document Type: Article

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