Evidence of multi-phase Cretaceous to Quaternary alkaline magmatism on Tore-Madeira Rise and neighbouring seamounts from 40Ar/39Ar ages

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 166, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 879-894

  Merle, Renaud ^a,b   Jourdan, Fred ^c,d   Marzoli, Andrea ^a   Renne, Paul R ^c,e   Grange, Marion ^d   Girardeau, Jacques ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BIOTITE; CRETACEOUS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODYNAMICS; LAVA; MAGMATISM; PLAGIOCLASE; QUATERNARY; SEAMOUNT;

AFRICA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69949095852     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492008-060     Document Type: Article

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