Emeishan large igneous province (SW China) and the mantle-plume up-doming hypothesis

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 953-959

  Ali, Jason R ^a   Fitton, J Godfrey ^b   Herzberg, Claude ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENTS;

DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES; EMEISHAN BASALTS; EMEISHAN LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; OCEAN ISLAND BASALTS; REGIONAL SCALE; TRACE ELEMENT CONTENT; TRANSITION ZONES;

THERMAL PLUMES;

LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LAVA FLOW; MAGMA; MANTLE PLUME; MANTLE SOURCE; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT; PERMIAN; TRACE ELEMENT; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

EID: 77955568643     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-129     Document Type: Article

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