Madagascar volcanic provinces linked to the Gondwana break-up: Geochemical and isotopic evidences for contrasting mantle sources

Gondwana Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 295-314

  Bardintzeff, Jacques Marie ^a,b   Liégeois, Jean Paul ^c   Bonin, Bernard ^a   Bellon, Hervé ^d   Rasamimanana, Georges ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^c ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^e Min de l'Energie et des Mines   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Hot spot; K Ar geochronology; Madagascar; Mantle source; Sr Nd isotopes

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; EMPLACEMENT; GONDWANA; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE SOURCE; PROTEROZOIC;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 77954951444     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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