Geology and geochemistry of Pachmarhi dykes and sills, Satpura Gondwana Basin, central India: Problems of dyke-sill-flow correlations in the Deccan Traps

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 357-380

  Sheth, Hetu C ^a   Ray, Jyotiranjan S ^b   Ray, Ranjini ^a   Vanderkluysen, Loÿc ^c   Mahoney, John J ^c   Kumar, Alok ^b   Shukla, Anil D ^b   Das, Partha ^a   Adhikari, Subhrashis ^a   Jana, Bikashkali ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental flood basalt; DeccanTraps; Dyke swarm; Gondwana; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DECCAN TRAPS; DIKE; DIKE SWARM; FLOOD BASALT; FORMATION MECHANISM; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAVA; LEAD ISOTOPE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROGRAPHY; SILL; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH; SATPURA BASIN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 68349085517     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-009-0387-4     Document Type: Article

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