The North Atlantic Igneous Province reconstructed and its relation to the Plume Generation Zone: The Antrim Lava Group revisited

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 183-202

  Ganerod M ^a,b   Smethurst, M A ^a   Torsvik, T H ^a,c   Prestvik, T ^b   Rousse, S ^d   McKenna, C ^e   van Hinsbergen, D J J ^a,c   Hendriks, B W H ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Hotspots; Large igneous provinces; Magnetostratigraphy; Palaeomagnetism applied to geologic processes

Indexed keywords

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CENOZOIC; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRETACEOUS; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOT SPOT; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE PROCESS; MANTLE SOURCE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; RECONSTRUCTION; TERTIARY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANTRIM; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77954639285     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04620.x     Document Type: Article

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