The sedimentary record of mantle-plume uplift

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 352, Issue , 2001, Pages 227-245

  Rainbird, Robert H ^a   Ernst, Richard E ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOODS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES; WEATHERING;

CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; CURRENT PATTERNS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; OVERLYING STRATA; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; VOLCANIC CENTERS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ARCHEAN; CENOZOIC; FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

EID: 77956487795     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2352-3.227     Document Type: Article

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